Health Undersecretary Cascolan will oversee Visayas vaccine logistics

MANILA, Philippines — Health Undersecretary Camilo Cascolan, a former chief of the Philippine National Police, has been assigned to manage the logistics of COVID-19 vaccines in the entire Visayas.

Cascolan assumed office on Monday, Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, the officer in charge of the Department of Health (DOH), said in a press briefing on Tuesday.

“I specifically instructed him to look into, first, the vaccination coverage in the areas; second, logistics management to inventory all of our commodities, specifically COVID-19 vaccines,” Vergeire said.

Vergeire also instructed Cascolan to develop a mechanism to hasten the inventory and management of vaccines and…

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