Ranchi: When a national vaccination drive against Covid-19 is set to complete six months on Friday, the state government looks back on many of the highest and lowest, including overcoming vaccine doubts to deal with supply gap in doses, during the first adult immunization drive.
Speaking with Toi, the Nodal Officer for vaccination drives in Jharkhand, Dr.
Ajit Prasad, said, “It has become a challenging job because we increase the number of session sites from several dozen to more than 3,000 sessions sites to operate every day.
Apart from that, we Get a urge that is very much needed in our coverage by extending the trip to the Panchayat level and a special weekend drive that saw around one lakh vaccinated person in one day.
“Asked about his challenge, Dr.
Prasad said:” Initially we faced a hesitant vaccine, however , IEC surveys, door to doors and awareness programs help us in dealing with it and now we finally tires our doses even refilled.
” As per the Department of Health’s record, Jharkhand has been able to fully examinate around 13.50,465 beneficiaries, around around 2.47 targeted recipients.
A total of 64,89,159 have received their first dose until July 13.
From aligned 2,2055 health workers, 1,58,895 have been given a dose, ensuring the coverage of 71% while 207418 has received their first shot, followed by another frontline staff with 56%.
From 3.98.051, 2.25,397 received a temporary dose 362547 received the first dose.
The coverage rate for senior citizens reached 13.32%, as 4.30.709, from 32.31,564, has received both temporary doses 14.07.788 has received their first jab.
Those aged 45-59 groups aged 4,32,831 people received both temporary doses of 17,75,599 received their first jab, coverage to 8.39%.
Although young children have changed in large quantities to take the coverage of the 18+ categories with complete inoculation remaining the lowest by only 0.65% received both of their doses.
Of the 1.57.34,635 beneficiaries, only 1, 02,643 had received both doses while 2735807 had received the first dose.
Because asked about low coverage between the 18+ categories, Dr.
Prasad said that disorders in the supply chain of vaccine doses and increased periods for covishield administration must be blamed.
“It’s not that we don’t vaccinate the younger population with priority basis but their vaccination starts late and the duration between the two covishiled doses is at least 84 days.
In the next three months, we will be able to resolve larger inoculation pieces in that category too,” said Prasad.