These logistical arrangements for the smooth implementation of the vaccination program were detailed on Friday by Dr. Suneela Garg, director and professor of community medicine at Maulana Azad Medical College and a member of the Delhi Covid-19 vaccination task force. In the capital, 51 lakh citizens will receive the prick in the first phase of vaccination.
Four regional Covid stores in Karnal in Haryana, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata have been reserved for the subsequent distribution of the vaccine between the states and territories of the Union, mainly by road. The Delhi vaccine storage points in the vicinity of the airport are expected to save time in the delivery process.
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Each of Delhi’s 11 districts will have between 55 and 60 cold chain points and between 90 and 100 vaccination booths. The approximately 1,000 vaccination booths will be created in 48 government hospitals and about 100 private hospitals. “No more than 100 injections will be given in a vaccination booth,” said a government official, adding that post-vaccination monitoring of a person for 30 minutes was mandatory.
The Delhi government has set up a vaccine storage point at the Rajiv Gandhi Superspecialty Hospital, while another is being prepared at Civil Lines. For the third storage facility, a site has been identified in the office of the Director General of Health Services, but government officials believe that the two main sites will be adequate.
Garg said: “From the Delhi storage facilities, the vaccine will be shipped to the districts in special vans, while the vaccine carriers will transport it from the cold chain points to the vaccination booths. Maintaining temperature while transporting the vaccine is very important. At all points in the cold chain, where freezers and refrigerators are available, temperature monitors will be used to ensure that the required temperature of 2-8 degrees Celsius is maintained ”.
In some places like Lok Nayak Hospital, where vaccination booths will be located near the point of the cold chain, vaccine carriers will pull out the vials.
In the first phase, the priority group of people who will receive the Covid-19 puncture will include three lakhs from healthcare workers, six lakhs from frontline workers, and 42 lakhs from people over 50 or under 50 but with comorbidities. .
The state government has used three sources to collect data on people who will receive vaccines in the first phase: details of health workers in hospitals, voter identification cards, and data generated at the district level during the detection of non-illnesses. communicable in the past to identify people under 50 with comorbidities. This list of beneficiaries is still being compiled. Self-registration for vaccination will begin in the Co-WIN app in a few days.
“All beneficiaries who are supposed to receive the vaccines will receive SMS text messages two days before the scheduled date to receive the vaccines. They have to appear at the indicated time and at the vaccination booth (the address will be available in the SMS) and show the SMS for verification, ”explained an official.
As part of the preparations, 3,500 people have been trained to administer the injections that will protect them from infection. These include 600 health professionals from dozens of private hospitals. Each vaccination booth will be managed by five vaccination officers in charge of verification, vaccination, updating of information on the government website, and post-vaccination monitoring. Emergency treatment measures will also be implemented in the cabins.
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