THERE is still no talks of purchasing bio-refrigerators that can store the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, which need a temperature control of negative 70 to 80 degrees Celsius, Acting City Health Officer Dr. Lorraine Nery said.
"Sa pagkakaron, wala pa may giistorya namo ni Dr. Bernardo (Dr. William Bernardo of the logistics cluster) regarding the purchase of the bio-refrigerator to support katong negative 70 to 80 degrees nga temperature," Nery said.
"Let us remember na ang pag allocate sa ato sa vaccines, ever matagaan man gyud ta og kaning Pfizer, dili sya in bulk," she added.
Nery said that according to Dr. William Bernardo of the logistics cluster, the city has a bio-freezer with a capacity of 158 litters.
The city health officer said they will have to coordinate with the Department of Health (DOH) to determine what kind of vaccine is allocated to Cagayan de Oro City and if Pfizer is one of them, what percentage of the city's population will be the recipient of such vaccine.
"Daghan pa tag factors nga i-consider kay sayang man pud na we invest in another bio-ref with that kind of temperature control nga posible pud nga dili pud Pfizer ang mahatag sa ato dinhi," Nery said.
"So better nga mas mag invest ta og more bio-refrigerators nga tungha kung unsa gyud ang posible nga bulk o mas daghan nga mahatag sa ato from the Department of Health," she added.
On Tuesday, February 17, the DOH-Northern Mindanao coordinator on expanded immunization program Geneca Jacot said that at present, Cagayan de Oro has no cold storage facility that can house vaccines that needed temperature control of negative 70 to 80 degrees Celsius.
