POE ON PRIVATE SECTOR SUPPORT IN VACCINATION PROGRAM:

It's time to scale up the resources, skills and infrastructure of the government with more significant help from the private sector to efficiently and quickly vaccinate Filipinos against COVID-19.

Initiatives of private companies and organizations should be tapped in the negotiations, procurement and distribution to increase the volume of vaccines that are available as COVID-19 infections surge.

The private sector will also prove valuable in raising greater awareness about the vaccines, including to the segment of the population wary about its effects.

The vaccine scarcity has become a hurdle that we must overcome at lightning speed.

Public-private-people partnerships will be our encompassing, crucial strategy to ensure availability and equitable access to the vaccines.