Rejang Lebong Health Office Receives 9,000 Doses Of Pfizer Vaccine

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REJANG LEBONG - The Rejang Lebong District Health Office (Dinkes) received an additional 9,000 doses of the Pfizer brand COVID-19 vaccine, which was sent by the Jambi Provincial Health Office.

Head of the Health Office Rejang Lebong Syahfawi, said that there were 217,861 people who were targeted for COVID-19 vaccination, consisting of health workers, public officials, the elderly (elderly), vulnerable communities and the general public as well as teenagers.

"Yesterday we received an additional 9,000 doses of the Pfizer brand vaccine from the Bengkulu Provincial Health Office. In addition, we also have several thousand doses of Sinovac brand vaccine stock that must be spent by the end of this month," he said in Rejang Lebong, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, March 16.

He explained that the stock of vaccines they received would be used for mass vaccination activities carried out by officers from the Health Office Rejang Lebong and TNI/Polri in 15 sub-districts in Rejang Lebong, both for giving doses of 1,2 and 3 or boosters.

"This vaccine was dropped from the center, the same as the previous pattern, there was no demand and no vaccine procurement by the district or city health offices," he said. Meanwhile, for the AstraZeneca brand vaccine, which expired on 28 February 2022, he said, the number up to 23,000 doses. This vaccine is still stored in health facilities (faskes) in 15 sub-districts in the region.

"The vaccine that expired on February 28 was 23,000 doses, in accordance with the directives of the Bengkulu Provincial Health Office, but they will remain in their respective health facilities without being contested," he said.

According to him, the existence of this expired vaccine has been reported to the Ministry of Health and is closely monitored by various parties and there is no engineering.

"Currently we are still waiting for directions from the center, whether this vaccine will be withdrawn or destroyed or something else. In accordance with the instructions from the Bengkulu Province Health Office, the expired vaccine remains in the respective health facilities," said Syahfawi.