President Rodrigo Duterte has directed the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to investigate the local chief executives who were inoculated ahead of some medical frontliners.
“We have issued Show Cause Orders to them and we await their response as part of due process,” according to DILG Officer-in-Charge Bernardo Florece, Jr.
“We will act on the basis of their responses to the Order,” Florece added.
In the meantime, Florece said the DILG already advised governors, mayors, and other local government officials to refrain from getting inoculated ahead of the medical frontliners.
“They should follow strictly the prioritization list approved by the DOH (Department of Health),” he emphasized.
The intent of the national government is that all medical frontliners must be vaccinated first because of the need to protect the health care system, first and foremost, Florece emphasized.