After the government’s announcement of new quarantine rules starting May 15, Senator Kiko Pangilinan said the private sector and the local government units (LGUs) should be given a bigger role in Covid-19 response especially when it comes to vaccination.
Pangilinan stressed that the government’s vaccination efforts are inadequate and slow, and that government needs to speed up its efforts with the help of LGUs and the private sector.
“We have to speed it up. The private sector also wants the vaccination to step up, asking that they be allowed to go ahead with their own vaccinations,” Pangilinan said.
“We saw this from day one. As early as January, we are already saying that unless the private sector takes a bigger role as well as the LGUs, we’re never going to be able to roll it out effectively,” he added.
Pangilinan challenged the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to enable LGUs by giving up some of its powers so that it could reach its goal of 70 million vaccinated Filipinos by year-end.
“Don’t keep it to yourselves. To reach 70 million, you need an army on the ground. You cannot just rely on the DOH; its army of health personnel on the ground would be the private sector as well as the LGUs,” said Pangilinan.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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