The Muntinlupa City government has vaccinated 198 minors aged 12 to 17 years old with comorbidities.
According to Dr. Edwin Dimatatac, medical director of Ospital ng Muntinlupa (OsMun) which has been designated by the government as one of the pilot hospitals for the vaccination of minors with comorbidities, 72 minors were vaccinated on the first day last Oct. 25 followed by 126 on Oct. 26 for a total of 198.
The first 72 minors did not experience any reaction to the vaccine, Dimatatac said. Details on any reactions from the 126 minors were unavailable as of this writing.
As of Oct. 25, 14,896 12-to-17-year-olds have registered with the Muntinlupa City COVID-19 Vaccination program, equivalent to 27 percent of the estimated total population of 55,391 for the age group in the city.
Minors, classified by the Department of Health (DOH) as Pediatric A3 group, are currently being vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, one of two vaccines approved by the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in people 12 years old and above. The other vaccine approved for minors is Moderna.
Under the DOH guidelines, the parent or legal guardian and the minor should sign the consent and assent forms before vaccination.
A medical certificate for the minor is also needed while the parents or guardians need to present a valid ID and proof of filiation such as birth certificate.
Muntinlupa residents may register for vaccination at vaccine.muntinlupacity.gov.ph/muncovac.
The comorbidities allowed for the vaccination of minors are: medical complexity, genetic conditions, neurologic conditions, metabolic/endocrine diseases, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, HIV infection, tuberculosis, chronic respiratory diseases, renal disorders, hepatobiliary diseases and immunocompromised state due to disease or treatment.
In Muntinlupa, the first minor with comorbidity who was vaccinated was 17-year-old Natalia Danielle Antonino Palma from Brgy. Ayala Alabang who has allergic rhinitis and asthma.
Muntinlupa Mayor Jaime Fresnedi urged parents to register their children for vaccination to protect them from the adverse effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).