Mumbai: All Arthur Road Jail Inmates and B byculla District Prison have been vaccinated with both doses against Covid-19.
Project Mumbai, an NGO, has drives vaccinations in prisons along with city corporations.
As on Friday, a total of 3,400 inmates from Arthur Road Jail and 900 from Byculla prison have completed their vaccination schedule, Shishir Joshi, CEO and the founder of Mumbai Project, said.
“Prison is a very crowded room, and it is important to complete the vaccination process in prison as early as possible because it maintains social blasphemy is not possible there,” he said.
Volunteers from NGOs said they were surprised to receive assistance from prisoners when registering their names in Cowin.
Atharv Kulkarni, a volunteer with NGOs, said that a young entrepreneur, who experienced Excel, helped them fill in details and do pre-vaccinated documentation.
“Many of those pairs, holding hands because they are afraid they will be pasted.
We advise them,” said Kulkarni.
BMC has created a special session for prison.
Prisoners from abroad are very worried.
“They have read about fake vaccine fraud and worried if they get the right vaccine.
We explained to them that the bottle was directly from the corporation,” said Kulkarni.
A senior byculla trace officer told TII that all inmates, both men and women, who were given the first dose of vaccines in prison before they had completed the second dose too.
Byculla prison accommodates men and women in a separate part.
“Some prisoners took their first dose in prison and were then given guarantees.
They were given a print vaccination certificate so they could take the second jab outside,” the officer said.
New prisoners, who had taken one chance before coming to the prison, were given a second shot after the certificate they were examined.
Officers said that if the number of newcomers swelled, the NGO will return again, and if there are fewer inmates, prison officials will contact the BMC environmental office for vaccination.
Arthur Rd, Prison Inmates byCulla Get Both Doses of Vax Covid
