Senator Joel Villanueva on Sunday scored the proposal to disqualify tobacco firms and other private companies involved in businesses “in conflict with public health” from procuring their own vaccines, saying such a move, if implemented, would hamper the efforts on speeding up the roll out of vaccines across the broader population.
The chair of the Senate labor committee was reacting to Section 5 of a draft administrative order by the Department of Health circulating in the public, which stated that the DOH and the National Task Force would “ensure that private entities who will be part of the agreement are not in any way related to the tobacco industry, products covered under EO 51 series of 1986 or the “National Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, Breastmilk Supplement and Other Related Products” or other industries in conflict with public health.”
“The supposed provision is inconsistent with our common goal of vaccinating our people so every worker can go back to work without fear of getting sick,” Villanueva said.
“Papaano bibilis ang pagpaparami ng stockpile ng bakuna kung sinasara natin ang pakikipagusap sa iilan?” he added. “Vaccines should be made available for all. No company should be excluded.”
“Why are we discriminating against these industries? They are not asking for vaccine subsidies. They are legitimate businesses with a number of employees,” he said.
“If they are willing to vaccinate their employees for free, why stop them?” Villanueva said.
“We should encourage the private sector to vaccinate their employees so that the government can just focus on vaccinating the frontliners, including minimum wage earners and contractual workers, government workers and our teachers,” he said.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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