Ranchi: Chairman of the Minister of Hemant Soren and Minister of Health Banna Gupta on Tuesday marked 60 cellular vaccination vans from Dhurwa here to increase the coverage of the Covid-19 vaccination.
The State Health Department official said the vehicle, called vaccination expressed, would leave one place to place in 24 districts with two trained assistive assistations (ANM) midwives and one data entry operator each and took a special vaccination camp in the area and hamlet that had been report lower voters so far.
After the flag, Soren said, “So far, 1.7 crores have been vaccinated in Jharkhand while 40 lakh people have been given a dose of their Covid-19 vaccine.
Our government comes with a new program to reach a large number of people and manage the covid vaccine dose To them.
“The launch came a few days after the center allowed senior citizens, different people and people with limited movements, to take Jab in their homes.
The health department source said 60 cellular vaccination vehicles were an effort to improve existing cellular vaccination services, which already existed in Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Deoghar.
The department has appointed India Care, a non-profit organization headquartered in New Delhi, for the project.
CARE India currently handles mega vaccination camps held at the Football Morhabadi Stadium in Ranchi, Keenan Stadium in Jamshedpur, Curzon Stadium in Hazaribag, Library Ground in Bokaro and Girech.
Abhay Bhagat, India State Care Program Officer, said Van Vaccination would start working from the district at the end of this week.
“The local administration agency will facilitate cellular vaccination drives by identifying areas that have recorded a low turn so far.
Van will tour urban and rural areas,” he added.
Soren also appealed to people to stay at the appropriate Covid-19 behavior, hand hygiene and social distance during the celebration season.
“The danger of mass infection is still departing and we all have to be vigilant,” he said.