Mumbai: Close half of the population of large slum belts Mumbai Dharavi has received a Covid-19 vaccination dose so far.
Officials said they had reached this figure by considering vaccination in civil centers, by the company through the company’s social response (CSR) in the area and camps held by selected local representatives.
Environmental level officials said the total population of Dharavi was around 7 lakh but the number of those who qualified for cocinches was at 4.5 lakh (those over 18 years old).
Of these, around 2.1 lakh is expected to have taken both of these doses.
The first vaccination center in a slum cluster is set in Dharavi where BMC aims to vaccinate the senior population and those who have comorbidity at the urban health center, known as “Chota Hospital Sion”.
Until then, anyone from Dharavi who wanted to get vaccination would mostly go to the Bandra-Kurla Complex Jumbo facility.
Assistant Commissioner of Kota Kiran Dighavkar said 47.4% of the total population Dharavi was vaccinated.
“Apart from the public health center, vaccination is also held through CSR initiatives.
BMC has helped mobilize beneficiaries with the help of local NGOs in cases where companies advance to vaccinate free costs,” Dighavkar said, adding now their focus will be in cellular vaccination To cover everything left in each area.
“Because the ward starts the initiative vaccine-on-wheels with cellular vaccination, the response is very good because we can target those who have not taken a second shot.
We will immediately start a home-to-home survey too.
Apart from it, the environmental war rooms already Start making calls to those who haven’t taken a vaccine, asking them to do it, “said Dighavkar.
Covid has entered Dharavi on April 1 last year and there are days when they have reported more than 90 cases too.