Lucknow: Eight months from the start of the mass immunization campaign in January, the Ministry of Health in Lucknow has now been able to record almost all health care communities with at least one vaccine injection, while 78% have been fully vaccinated.
The target is to fully vaccinate all health workers in Lucknow in March this year.
There are around 79,000 health workers in various government and personal medical facilities.
Of this 40% are women.
TimesviewThealthcare workers have been at the front line of the war against Covid’s pandemic.
They have multiple responsibilities to protect themselves and society.
For this, they need to give an example for the general public to get themselves fully vaccinated and follow the appropriate Covid behavior.
Health staff vaccination began on January 16.
However, according to the data available at the office of the medical officer, to date.
, 78,509 (99.3%) had received at least a vaccine shooting.
The next break-up shows that 62,267 (78.8%) has completed two dosage courses, while around 16,242 beneficiaries have doses and are waiting for a period of gap to end to take the second.
CMO spokesman Yogesh Raghuvanshi said that almost all health workers were vaccinated and most of them were still allowed not to qualify because of certain health problems.
The delay in vaccination of health workers was caused by many private hospital employees did not register themselves at first.
Then, new recruitment and transferred to Lucknow from other districts added.
The final count reached 79,000 in July.
Experts argue that the Ministry of Health must encourage further drives and analyzing health workers waiting for the second dose as early as possible.
Former head of the Institute of Indian Medicine-Bhu, Prof.
Anil Kumar Gulati, said, “Full vaccination will provide protection of health workers while handling the possibility of third-19-19 waves.” However, he added, health workers must continue to follow the Covid protocol even after being fully vaccinated.