Jamshedpur, Jan 15: The district health department is all set to launch the vaccination drive for Covid-19 in steel city.
On the day one of the drives on Saturday, vaccination will be administered at two centres — one in the MGM Medical College at Dimna and the other at Tata Main Hospital in Bistupur.
From Sunday, January 17 the vaccination facility will be provided at 11 other health hubs, including Sadar Hospital in Khasmahal, Birsanagar Urban community health centres, and all the remaining blocks beside the medical college as well as Tata Main Hospital.
East Singhbhum district civil surgeon, RN Jha said all the necessary preparations have been made for the maiden day of vaccination. About 200 health workers, including doctors will be vaccinated at the medical college hospital and Tata Main Hospital.
” We have made all the necessary arrangements. The vaccination work will start on Saturday, soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the Covid-19 vaccination nationwide. We have have installed a facility at the MGM Medical College for watching the Prime Minister’s vaccination launching function. In all 100 health workers, mostly doctors will be vaccinated at the medical college and an equal number of health workers will be administered the vaccines at the Tata Main Hospital on Saturday,” said Jha.
The civil surgeon said a dozen committees have been set up to see to it that the vaccination drive is carried out in the district. He informed that the separate committees which have been assigned to look after the logistics of the vaccination programme here will be led by himself only.
Notably, the district health department has already carried out dry-run for Covid-10 vaccination twice — on January 2 and January 8 — at as many as 13 health hubs across the East Singhbhum district, including the private-run Tata Main Hospital. On Wednesday a first lot of 8,700 vials of Covid-19 vaccines — Covishield — has reached the steel city and has been kept at the district cold storage for the vaccination programme.
The district administration is all set to administer the COVID -19 vaccines to health workers from January 16. The drive will first start from MGM Medical College and Hospital. About 8000 health workers have been registered for the initiative. According to the district administration, eight centres have been set up for the initiative. These include MGM Medical College, Tata Main Hospital (TMH), Urban CHC Birsnagar, Sadar Hospital Khasmahal, CHC Potka, CHC Bahragora, CHC Patmada and CHC Ghatshila.
