CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu is preparing to administer the Covid-19 vaccine starting in January and has started training 21,170 nurses as a first step.
The state is preparing cold storage facilities at 27 government medical college hospitals, another 303 government hospitals and 2,286 primary health centers that will be used to administer vaccines to five lakh doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, healthcare workers and pharmacists from the government and the private sector. hospitals in the first phase. At least one lakh of them are from Chennai, which has around 7,000 health care facilities.
After health professionals, others in the front-line staff of police, municipal administration, revenue and the media, in addition to the elderly and people with comorbidities, could be vaccinated, the secretary said on Thursday. Health J Radhakrishnan.
Since Tamil Nadu has a large elderly population, efforts were made to allocate more vaccines, he said after a virtual meeting with the union’s health secretary.
Committees had been formed at the district level to prepare for immunization. The state already has 51 cold stores and 2,685 secondary cold chain points ready, sources from the health department said. The state requested 1,144 ice-lined refrigerators, 992 freezers, 10 vaccine refrigeration vehicles, and 20 more refrigerators and freezers from the Center.
To cover its entire population, TN has identified 33,438 Anganwadis and 11,146 health sub-centers as well as potential vaccination sites.
On the threat of the new strain of the UK virus reaching the state, the health secretary said that 37 people who had traveled to Tamil Nadu this week had been quarantined and one had tested positive. Three others who evaded Covid inspection at Chennai airport traveled to their homes in Thirunindravur, Tiruthani and Puducherry were tracked down and quarantined. All three, who claimed they tested negative at Delhi airport, tested positive on Thursday.
The state is preparing cold storage facilities at 27 government medical college hospitals, another 303 government hospitals and 2,286 primary health centers that will be used to administer vaccines to five lakh doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, healthcare workers and pharmacists from the government and the private sector. hospitals in the first phase. At least one lakh of them are from Chennai, which has around 7,000 health care facilities.
After health professionals, others in the front-line staff of police, municipal administration, revenue and the media, in addition to the elderly and people with comorbidities, could be vaccinated, the secretary said on Thursday. Health J Radhakrishnan.
Since Tamil Nadu has a large elderly population, efforts were made to allocate more vaccines, he said after a virtual meeting with the union’s health secretary.
Committees had been formed at the district level to prepare for immunization. The state already has 51 cold stores and 2,685 secondary cold chain points ready, sources from the health department said. The state requested 1,144 ice-lined refrigerators, 992 freezers, 10 vaccine refrigeration vehicles, and 20 more refrigerators and freezers from the Center.
To cover its entire population, TN has identified 33,438 Anganwadis and 11,146 health sub-centers as well as potential vaccination sites.
On the threat of the new strain of the UK virus reaching the state, the health secretary said that 37 people who had traveled to Tamil Nadu this week had been quarantined and one had tested positive. Three others who evaded Covid inspection at Chennai airport traveled to their homes in Thirunindravur, Tiruthani and Puducherry were tracked down and quarantined. All three, who claimed they tested negative at Delhi airport, tested positive on Thursday.
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