More that 100 members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) were vaccinated at Camp Bilal here Thursday as part of the National Vaccination Days, which also highlighted the culmination of the 20th Mindanao Week of Peace.
Dr. Sofia Omar, Rural Health Unit Officer of Munai, Lanao del Norte, administers vaccine to a member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces at a health facility of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Camp Bilal Thursday afternoon (2 December 2021). MindaNews photo by RICHEL V. UMEL
It was held at Camp Bilal, lair of the famed MILF fighter “Kumander Bravo” and now Member of Parliament Abdullah Macapaar, at Sitio Kura-kura of Barangay Tamparan of this municipality. It is also the headquarters of the MILF’s Northwestern Mindanao Front Command.
“We here at Camp Bilal, together with my base commanders and the rest of our men, are strongly supporting the government’s National Vaccination Days so we’ll all have protection against COVID-19,” Macapaar said.
“If we love our family, we should not hesitate to be vaccinated,” he said, urging fellow MILF members to go to the nearest vaccination center.
Dr. Sofia Omar, Rural Health Unit officer, said it was a mix of first and second doses for the MILF fighters.
Macapaar, she said, already had his first dose in November and will have his second dose later this month.
“In behalf of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, I am calling on my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters of the entire Lanao Region to avail of the vaccine,” Macapaar added.
Samanodin Oraki, a BIAF member for the past 18 years, said he is convinced that the vaccine will protect people against COVID-19 and convinced fellow Moro warriors to get their jabs, too. Oraki had his second dose of Sinovac in the camp.
https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2021/12/milf-in-lanao-joins-national-vaccination-days/
It was held at Camp Bilal, lair of the famed MILF fighter “Kumander Bravo” and now Member of Parliament Abdullah Macapaar, at Sitio Kura-kura of Barangay Tamparan of this municipality. It is also the headquarters of the MILF’s Northwestern Mindanao Front Command.
“We here at Camp Bilal, together with my base commanders and the rest of our men, are strongly supporting the government’s National Vaccination Days so we’ll all have protection against COVID-19,” Macapaar said.
“If we love our family, we should not hesitate to be vaccinated,” he said, urging fellow MILF members to go to the nearest vaccination center.
Dr. Sofia Omar, Rural Health Unit officer, said it was a mix of first and second doses for the MILF fighters.
Macapaar, she said, already had his first dose in November and will have his second dose later this month.
“In behalf of the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, I am calling on my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters of the entire Lanao Region to avail of the vaccine,” Macapaar added.
Samanodin Oraki, a BIAF member for the past 18 years, said he is convinced that the vaccine will protect people against COVID-19 and convinced fellow Moro warriors to get their jabs, too. Oraki had his second dose of Sinovac in the camp.
https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2021/12/milf-in-lanao-joins-national-vaccination-days/
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