COVID-19 vaccine's dry run successful in Maharashtra, Rajesh Tope

By Lokmat English Desk | Published: January 3, 2021 10:30 AM2021-01-03T10:30:00+5:302021-01-03T10:30:00+5:30

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A dry run was successfully conducted today in four districts of the state namely Pune, Nagpur, Jalna and Nandurbar for corona vaccination. Health Minister Rajesh Tope inaugurated the dry run session at Jalna. Vaccination at three places in each district.

The monitoring of this dry run from the state level was done by the Principal Secretary of the Health Department, Dr. Pradeep Vyas, Commissioner Dr. Ramaswamy, Director Dr. Archana Patil.

Vaccination was done at District Hospital Aundh, Primary Health Center Maan, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Jijamata Health Center in Pune district.

Vaccination was carried out at District Hospital Nandurbar, Primary Health Center Ashti and Sub-District Hospital Navapur in Nandurbar district and District Hospital, Sub-District Hospital Ambad, Primary Health Center Shelgaon in Jalna district.

In Nagpur district, dry run was taken at Daga Memorial Hospital, Sub-District Hospital Kamathi and Urban Health Center of KT Nagar in Nagpur Municipal Corporation. In all these four districts and in the Municipal Corporation, the place of session is Collector, Municipal Commissioner, District Health Officer, Dist

To observe the test beneficiaries at the session venue in this dry run. Vaccination of 25 Beneficiaries Along with Yakama, the Immunization Officer released the beneficiaries in the room as per their registration on the Covin app.

Vaccination Officer Two then verified the beneficiary information in the Covin application. Vaccination information was then recorded in the Covin app.

Crowd management, personal interaction with the beneficiaries, helping the health worker, telling the beneficiaries to wait 30 minutes after vaccination etc. Things were done by three and four vaccination officers.

Hand washing arrangements, sanitizers were made available while conducting corona vaccination sessions. The rules of wearing masks and maintaining proper distance (Social Distancing) were enforced. Vaccine side effects at all sessions.

The success of the dry run test conducted at the primary level indicates that the vaccination campaign will start soon. In particular, the central government today announced that the corona vaccine will be provided free of cost to every citizen of the country.