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The nationwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign may take three to five years to complete, according to the government’s main executor of the government’s national policy on Covid-19, Carlito G. Galvez, citing the logistical restrictions facing the vaccinate between 60 and 70 million people.
“We could vaccinate more or less 20 to 30 million a year,” Gálvez said in an interview with PTV on Wednesday.
Among the restrictions the government may face are the number of doses of the Covid-19 vaccine it will be able to buy in the coming years, as well as the number of cold chain facilities it will have to rent to store the vaccines.
Currently, Congress has only reserved P2.5 billion for vaccinating the initial 3 million people.
Gálvez urged lawmakers to allocate P150 billion separately for the logistics cost of the vaccination campaign, which is expected to begin in the middle or second half of 2021.
The vaccine czar is confident that they will be able to obtain the funding they requested after the Department of Finance (DOF) previously announced that it is considering a budget of P73.2 billion for the purchase of sufficient doses of vaccines to immunize at least 60 million people. of Covid-19.
The Department of Health (DOH), he said, has already identified 35 million people to be prioritized for the vaccination campaign based on the specifications made by President Duterte.
These priority beneficiaries include poor health workers, as well as uniformed government personnel and their families.
