Jharkhand is left with vaccines for only 3.5 days with the State Government demanding adequate supply of vaccines to scale up vaccination in the State. As per health department bulletin, the State is left with vaccines for only 3.5 days.
The State is left with only 2,66,720 doses of vaccines and if the health department goes with average 75,800 doses of daily vaccination then it will be left for only three days. As per health bulletin, the State Government till date has received 82,69,110 doses of vaccines which are both Covishield and Covaxin.
Out of total vaccines received by the State Government, 80,23,859 doses of vaccines have been administered, while wastage of vaccine doses stands at 21,469. The vaccine wastage percentage is around 0.27 per cent. The Ministry of health department in June had claimed that Jharkhand tops in vaccine wastage with State reporting maximum wastage of 33.95 per cent.
However, terming the vaccine wastage figure of Jharkhand by the Centre at 33.95 per cent as “old data”, the Hemant Soren Government said it has received permission from the Central Ministry to rectify the related data and the vaccine wastage was 1.5 per cent in the State. Since then the State Government has worked hard in minimising the vaccine wastage bringing it down by less than 1 per cent.
Apart from strengthening vaccination, in a big relief the daily corona cases in the State too has come down. The State recovery rate is 98.30 per cent while the active cases have dropped to below 300 mark. Meanwhile, the health department has started preparations for a possible third wave of pandemic. The health department has called a review meeting of officials on Saturday.
The agenda which will be discussed during the review meeting includes Covid-19 testing mandatory at all entry points, passengers coming from outside - by rail road and airport as well as vulnerable areas will be tested. To ensure strict enforcement of Covid appropriate behaviour as well as implementation of test, track, isolate, treat and vaccinate.
At the review meeting the officials will also go through the status of completion of PSA plant establishment by July 30. Status of augmentation of oxygen by setting up PSA oxygen plants at each private hospital with at least 50 beds.
Pediatric bed management and preparedness of pediatric ICU, Neonatal ICU and Child Friendly ward too will be discussed in the meeting. At the meeting the officials will also discuss ramping up of vaccination coverage with focus on zero wastage of vaccines.
Mobile RT-PCR van
Health Minister Banna Gupta will launch the mobile RTPCR testing van on Friday. The mobile RT-PCR van has been certified by ICMR and received accreditation from NABL. The state government with an aim of test, track, isolate and treat is going to launch a mobile RT-PCR van. At present the van will be made available to Ranchi, East Singhbhum, Dhanbad, Palamu and Hazaribagh district which are densely populated and having high corona cases.