Haryana Government has prepared a data of 1.9 lakh health care workers (HCWs) from both private and government sectors for successful implementation of COVID-19 vaccination drive, whenever the vaccine is made available in the country.
“The state’s Health Department has completed the groundwork and is prepared to introduce COVID-19 vaccine in a phased manner starting from HCWs.
For this, the data of more than 1.9 lakh HCWs from both private and government sectors have been uploaded on CoWIN portal,” said Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Rajeev Arora.
He said that the Department has already identified 1,800 vaccination session sites and more than 5,000 vaccinators have been mapped for the process of administering the vaccine.
Moreover, to ensure the vaccine reaches every district, the Health Department has 22 Vaccine Vans (insulated) for transporting vaccines across the state.
Arora said that the Haryana Government has meticulously prepared the vaccine rollout plan and is all set to introduce it.
The platform of the existing Universal Immunization program of state with enhanced capacity is being used for COVID-19 vaccine, he added.
Divulging more details, he said that the COVID-19 vaccine introduction will span over a year with multiple groups being included sequentially starting from HCWs. Moreover, the vaccination will be done at fixed session sites and mapping of session sites are in progress, he said.
As per the Government of India (GOI) guidelines, vaccination will be done on an election model with the involvement of other departments, said Arora.
On the availability of cold storages, he said that the state has sufficient cold chain space to meet out additional requirement for COVID-19 vaccine. Furthermore, the category wise vaccination is to be done in a phased manner.
All districts have been instructed to create additional dry space for storing logistics and majority of districts have already created extra space for the same, he said.
Revealing details of the infrastructure for storage, transportation and maintaining vaccine and logistics supply chain,Arora said that one State vaccine Store has been identified in Kurukshetra, four regional vaccine stores have been identified in Hisar, Gurugram, Kurukshetra and Rohtak. 22 district vaccine stores and 659 cold chain points have been identified, he added.