Teleperformance PH holds COVID vax drive
Business Process outsourcing (BPO) firm Teleperformance Philippines held another on-site vaccination drive in the company’s site in EDSA-Quezon City.
The branch which offered nighttime inoculation for employees and city residents vaccinated about 500 children and adults during the event.
Jab drives at BPOs are convenient for night shift workers who want their children as young as 5 to get immunized against COVID-19.
Teleperformance Site Director Ryan Sumera said that “doing it here is already an incentive. They don’t have to venture far, there’s no waste in time, it’s fast, walang [there is no] disruption ng [of] work.”
The Department of Health (DOH) allowed four other BPO companies to administer coronavirus vaccines to the dependents of their employees. Some also offered jabs to the public who register with the local health office.
DOH-National Capital Region (NCR) director Dr. Gloria Balboa even said that the on-site vaccination in offices has become a family affair. “It’s good that the vaccination is brought to the workplace because many people, for example, have no time to go to the vaccination site.”
Around 65 million Filipinos or over 72% of the target population have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Around 1.4 million of them are children aged 5 to 11 and 9.7 million are children aged 12 to 17.
