PAGADIAN CITY – A fire that broke out inside the provincial government center here shortly before midnight on Sunday destroyed supplies of COVD-19 vaccines and other routine vaccines for people in
Dr. Anatalio Cagampang Jr., chief of the Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center and the Integrated Provincial Health Office , said the damaged vaccines included AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer and Sinovac and other routine vaccines for hepatitis, measles, polio.
The fire was believed to have started at the maintenance hall on the ground floor of one of the buildings inside the Zamboanga del Sur provincial government center in Barangay Dao here.The maintenance hall sat directly below the IPHO office on the second floor, which also sustained damage. As the fire grew, smoke rose towards the adjacent structure where COVID-19 patients with moderate cases stayed on the third and fourth floors.
Cagampang said they were still trying to account for all the damages inside the building while the Bureau of Fire Protection probed about the origin of the fire.
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