Second is dealing with the logistics, which remains to be the biggest challenge for the

country as it has little to no capacity in transporting and storing vaccines. We currently have the
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) located in Muntinlupa as the country’s only
major cold chain supply. How do we get the vaccine then from point to point and have it stored
in the right facility? This calls for a private-public partnership where we create a National
Logistics Committee for COVID 19 Vaccine which will be composed of expert logisticians,
DOH official, BoC official, and other agencies deemed necessary. This committee will be mainly
in charge of maintaining the cold chain performance and handling data collection and possible
arrangements of air flights specifically dedicated to transporting vaccines in other areas of the
Philippines. Meanwhile, the private sector could provide for the funding of transport costs, and
possibly, to the manpower and expertise for the logistics aspect. In this way, there would be no
more problems regarding [vaccine] replenishment as deliveries would be “based on the data of
actual consumption collected by the logistician” (villagereach.org, 2014).

with a dedicated team assigned doing deliveries following a schedule and in-charge of
handling data collection and the maintenance and monitoring of the cold chain performance;
thus, vaccine replenishment would not be of a problem since it is already “based on annual
demographics forecast adjusted monthly by actual consumption based on data collected by the
logistician”