Chief Minister Hemant Soren today reviewed the preparations for cold chain management and COVID-19 vaccination in the State. The CM asked officials to make all preparations for successful implementation of the vaccination process and establish coordination with all departments and private health institutions, mark vaccination sites, ensure availability of trained human resources and related resources.
Principal Secretary, Health Department, Dr. Nitin Madan Kulkarni apprised the CM that on January 8, a dry run will be organized in all the districts of the State for COVID-19 vaccination. Earlier, a successful dry run of corona vaccination has been done by identifying 375 volunteers in 6 districts of the State. District level Steering Committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioner in the districts. Apart from this, the work of inspection of cold chain points through all the Deputy Commissioners is in the final stages.
Priority has been fixed for the corona vaccination campaign in the State. Under this, corona vaccination of about 1.5 lakh healthcare workers will be done first. It will also include Anganwadi workers.
This will be followed by vaccination of frontline workers including State and Central government police personnel, armed forces, home guards, prison staff, disaster management coordinators, civil defence organizations, municipal personnel and revenue officers. About two lakh beneficiaries have been identified for this.
After this, about 62.97 lakh people above 50 years of age and those above 50 years of age who are suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and lung diseases, will be included in the vaccination campaign. Its estimated number is about 33.42 lakhs.
As many as 275 vaccine stores have been created across the State. It has one and two regional vaccine reserves at the State level. Apart from this, waxing stores (one each) and 248 collective community health centers and primary health centers have been set up in all the 24 districts. In addition, the work of training the vaccinators is going on continuously.
Digital vaccination certificates will be given to the beneficiaries taking the Corona vaccine. The Principal Secretary of the Health Department informed that Health ID will also be created for interested beneficiaries. Reporting and tracking of adverse events after vaccination have also been arranged.
Health Minister Banna Gupta, Chief Secretary Sukhdev Singh, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Rajiv Arun Ekka and Principal Secretary of Health Department Nitin Madan Kulkarni were present in the meeting.