MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) is appealing for the public’s understanding for the healthcare worker who failed to inject the COVID-19 vaccine to a woman who was due to receive the shot.
“Hinihingi po natin ang pang-unawa ng ating mga kababayan. Let us not try to crucify the healthcare worker. Nagkakamali po tayong lahat,” DOH Undersecretary and spokesperson Maria Rosario Vergeire said in an online press briefing on Tuesday.
(We are asking for the understanding of the public. Let us not try to crucify the healthcare worker. We commit mistakes as well.)
Vergeire said what is important is that the mistake was immediately rectified and the woman who was …
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