TS districts gear up for Covid vaccination drive

Collectors review arrangements; 11,200 registered for first shot in Khammam

Khammam: As many as 42 centres have been established and 11,200 persons were listed out for the first phase of Covid-19 vaccination in the district, informed the District Collector RV Karnan.

He was addressing the district officials at Covid-19 vaccination district level coordination committee meeting chaired by the ZP Chairman L Kamalraj here on Tuesday. The vaccination programme would be formally launched on January 16 at six centres in the district, he said.

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The District Hospital, Mamata General Hospital, Ankura Hospital, Primary Health Centre, Bonakal, Madhira and Sathupalli Community Health Centres have been identified for the launch of the vaccination drive in Khammam.

Frontline warriors such as private and government medical staff, paramedical staff, Anganwadi workers, ICDS staff, those supervised quarantine centres and others would get a vaccine shot in the first phase from Jan 16 to 23, Karnan said.

Those registered for vaccination would receive an SMS and accordingly they have to receive the vaccine. Waiting rooms, vaccination rooms and observation rooms and 108 ambulance, oxygen and reaction treatment kits must be readied. It was planned to vaccinate 100 persons at each centre.

Awareness programmes were organised by mandal taskforce committees to educate the masses about the vaccination, the Collector said while appealing to the elected members to cooperate for the success of the programme.

The ZP Chairman Kamalraj urged the local elected members to visit the vaccination centres and see that every person registered for Covid-19 immunisation receives the vaccine. He wanted the first phase of vaccination to be conducted successfully.

In Kothagudem, the District Collector MV Reddy held a teleconference with health officials, elected members, district and mandal taskforce committee members. He said in the first phase around 8,907 frontline warriors would get the vaccine in the district.

He expressed pleasure at the rollout of the vaccine and said the Covid-19 immunisation would formally be launched at Kothagudem, Old Kothagudem, Yellandu and Bhadrachalam government hospitals, on January 16.

Vaccine drive: Minister takes stock of situation in Nizamabad

Nizamabad: Medical and Health Department officials have made all arrangements to carry out the massive Covid vaccination drive at 70 centre in the erstwhile Nizamabad district.

Reviewing the meeting with district officials, Roads and Buildings Minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy on Tuesday said that the district administration was ready to roll out the mass vaccination drive in the district.

The Minister said that 12, 000 frontline workers would be administered the vaccine in the first phase in Kamareddy district. He said 30 vaccine distribution centers were established in the district.

Later the Minister conducted a review meeting with the medical and health officials at Nizamabad collectorate. He said that 28,000 persons would be vaccinated at 40 centres in Nizamabad district.

Covid inoculation from Jan 16 in Sangareddy: Collector

Sangareddy: District Collector M Hanumantha Rao on Tuesday instructed the officials to be prepared for administration of Covid-19 vaccines to frontline warriors in Sangareddy district from January 16.

The Collector, who inspected the arrangements at various hospitals across the district, said the vaccine will be administered to 40 persons at each of the six hospitals – Area Hospital Zaheerabad, PHC Digwal, Area Hospital Patancheru, MNR Medical College, UPHC Indira Nagar and Balaji Medical College – on the first day. He said that health workers, sanitation staff and police personnel will be inoculated on priority.

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