Regional cold storage facilities reviewed in Hoshiarpur district

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, December 26

Reviewing the preparedness of Covid vaccination to be received in future and storage facilities in the district, Principal Secretary (Health) Hussan Lal said that the regional vaccine store in the Civil Hospital, Hoshiarpur, would supply vaccine to Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, SBS Nagar, Gurdaspur and Pathankot districts.

Accompanied by Deputy Commissioner Apneet Riyait and SSP Navjot Singh Mahal, the Principal Secretary, who presided over a meeting in the District Administrative Complex, said that in the first phase of vaccination drive, the health workers, frontline workers and those above 50 years of age would be covered. He said that data of 8,000 health workers had been registered so far in the district and vaccine would not be administered without registration.

36 Covid vaccination sites identified

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Hussan Lal said that in Hoshiarpur, 36 sites (vaccination sites) including Civil Hospital, three sub-divisional hospitals, 12 community health centres and health institutions empanelled under Ayushman Bharat-Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna, had been earmarked for covering 100 persons daily under the vaccination drive. He ordered the district administration and the Health Department to ensure the sampling of UK returnees amid the new variant of coronavirus detected in the country. He further asked them to trace testing and isolate the persons returned from the UK from December 21 to 23.

The Deputy Commissioner informed that the Health Department had already trained 264 employees for administering the vaccine who would be deployed as vaccinators at these sites. She said that apart from health workers, the vaccine would be administered to frontline workers including officials from police, MC and sanitation employees who remained forefront during the pandemic. Informing about vaccine storage arrangements, the Deputy Commissioner said the Civil Hospital had capacity of storing 15-16 lakh doses with facility of walk-in refrigerators.

SSP Navjot Singh Mahal said elaborated security arrangements would be made in and around the sites besides during transportation.

Civil Surgeon Dr Jasvir Singh said an effective mechanism had been mapped out for the administration of Covid vaccine at all sites and ambulances would also be stationed.