A meeting of the task force committee of the Ganjam Zilla Swasthya Samiti on district level vaccination programme “Indra Dhanush” was held at Chhatrapur.
Ganjam district Collector Prem Chandra Choudhury presided. Among others, Additional Collector Bijay Kumar Das, Project Director of DRDA Bijay Amruta Kulange, all the BDOs of the district, Health Officers, CDPOs, and the representatives of the Nehru Yuvak Kendra were present.
Presiding in the meeting, Collector Choudhury stressed on the need of identifying the children (the key target group) in rural and urban areas, of bricks workers and those residing in inaccessible areas for successful implementation of the mega vaccination programme on priority basis.
He also instructed the health workers to have a door- to- door approach to sensitize the parents and pregnant women disseminating four key messages and advantages of the vaccination, including its side effect, solution measures, proper time for vaccination for their children, place of vaccination and safe preservation of their “Mamata Card” with them.
For 100 per cent implementation of the programme, Asha workers, Anganwadi workers, health supervisors and ANMs of the entire district would be engaged, Choudhury pointed out.