Vaccination drive to reach Panchkula slums tomorrow

Amit Bathla

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, March 13

With the vaccination drive yet to reach poor sections of the society, the Panchkula Health Department will lay emphasis on inoculating people aged over 60 and those in the age group of 45-59 years with comorbidities from slum pockets in both rural and urban areas of the district to ensure maximum coverage on Monday. ASHA and Anganwadi workers have been told to mobilise slum dwellers and bring them to sites for walk-in registration.

Ensuring maximum coverage

We are conducting Covid-19 vaccination on Monday with a special focus on rural and urban slum population. Instructions have been issued to ASHA and anganwadi workers to ensure maximum coverage.—  Dr Jasjeet Kaur, Civil Surgeon, Panchkula

“We are conducting Covid-19 vaccination on Monday with a special focus on rural and urban slum population. Instructions have been issued to ASHA and Anganwadi workers to ensure maximum coverage,” said Dr Jasjeet Kaur, Civil Surgeon.

The vaccination will take place at as many as 42 sites on Monday. These include public health centres, private hospitals, schools, public dispensaries and ITBP Centre at Bhanu.

“For the first time, we have also identified schools where vaccination will be done so that people living in proximity can take the jab,” she said.

The schools where vaccination will take place on Monday are Government School, Main Bazaar (Kalka); Government Middle School, Haripur; Government Senior Secondary School, Saketri; and Government School, Garhi Kotaha.

Incident commanders and Panchayat officials have also been asked to encourage people to come forward for vaccination. They will also coordinate will health workers to bring people to vaccination sites, as per instructions of Deputy Commissioner Mukesh Kumar Ahuja.

1,439 take the shot

As many as 1,439 senior citizens and those aged 45-59 years with comorbidities were vaccinated at 27 sites on Saturday. The coverage rate stood at 59.96 per cent.

So far, 12,894 citizens have been vaccinated in the district. The number of persons inoculated so far is 29,070 if healthcare workers and frontline workers are also taken into account. 

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