Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday said it was very encouraging to know that Civic Corporation in Mumbai gave 1,317 home vaccination for residents of bed with zero examples of every bad effect after immunization (AEFI), until August 9 Sakhare for August 9 BMC said at 11 August, the number of those who were vaccinated at home rose to 1,685.
He said Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) would speed up the process now.
The HC bench from the Chairman of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni expressed satisfaction with the encouragement of Covid-19 vaccination by BMC for the elderly residents lying in bed and homebound and expressed hope that he continued to vaccinate more in the coming days.
HC said the corporation of other cities can now follow what BMC has done.
BMC in Affidavit August 10 told the HC that 4,889 people had registered to be the beneficiary of the JAB house.
The Public Litigation Litigation (PIL) submitted by Advocates Dhruti Kapadia in April has searched for a policy to support the doorway to elderly people and homebound, in particular.
Some hearings and commands while later, the Maharashtra government comes with a policy for the special category and pilot project launched by BMC in Mumbai in August.
BMC also said that for the drive it took NGO support on several workforce wards and ‘basic life’ ambulance.
Project Mumbai is an NGO that partnered with BMC for door-to-door vaccination drives.
On July 30, BMC said it did a pre-pilot project with NGO support, where 37 recipients of the bed got Jab in the door vaccination to the door.
The role of NGOs can help in calling receivers three – four days earlier, sensitive local doctors and helped beneficiaries to get a fitness certificate and also to regulate the doctor to wait 30 minutes after vaccination and facilitate the burden of the tense public health system.
“SOP requires that the person certified by the doctor as a bed for the next six months to have a doctor stated that he was suitable for receiving the Covid-19 vaccine, also a family member must sign the informed consent form.