KORAPUT: an eight-member group consisting of an ANM employee and officials by the Odisha PVTG (especially vulnerable tribal band ) authority and livelihood improvement programme (OPELIP) trudged at least four km to get to the distant and accessible Hingabadi village around the Niyamgiri hills beneath Bissamkatak block Wednesday to vaccinate the Dongria Kondhs.
The group ran health screening of all of the 32 Dongira Kondh households residing in the village throughout their short lived stay while 13 qualified people over 45 years have been granted their very first vaccine dose.
“Not one of these villagers had some Covid signs or health problems.
The villagers were recommended to follow Covid-19 instructions to stay protected from the virus,” said Sudarshan Padhi, project director of OPELIP who visited the village.
Padhi said it wasn’t simple to trek the Niyamgiri hills together with medications and offenses below the underfloor heating.
The group began its journey to the village in approximately 11 am and it required a bit more than an hour to get to the village.
“We remained in the village for almost two weeks and noticed that the health state of people who’d been vaccinated.
Additionally, medications were spread among the villagers against congestion and they had been requested to accept it, if needed,” Padhi stated.
Rayagada district collector Saroj Kumar Mishra said that the government will be carrying such outreach initiatives at the distant and inaccessible regions of the district to reinforce its battle against Covid.
“The government is dedicated to offer healthcare facilities into the metropolitan area of this district.
Already, over 600 Dongria Kondhs are vaccinated from Covid-19 and at the forthcoming days more these villages occupied by the neighborhood is going to be addressed under the floor programme,” Mishra said.
As numerous as 9,597 Dongria Kondhs out of 2,461 families live in 102 villages around the Niyamgiri hills propagate across Bissamkatak, Kalyansinghpur along with Muniguda cubes of Rayagada district.
The neighborhood which had remained untouched throughout the initial tide of Covid-19 has reported above 100 positive instances in the next wave.
A 4km Build-up Niyamgiri to vaccinate Dongria Kondhs
