Guwahati: Sputnik V vaccine, made by Russia, has been a popular shot in Assam among beneficiaries because of its prepared availability and a shorter duration between the two shots.
Narayana Hospital in Guwahati began drive Sputnik V vaccination on June 30 as the first V sputnik vaccination center in the region.
After vaccimizing more than 700 people with the first dose, hospital administration is now getting ready to manage the second shot.
“Most recipients are happy with sputnik v because in a much shorter time span.
We will be fully immunized.
We will start our second dose since July 20,” Director of the Hospital, Ajit Kumar Bellamkonda, told TOI on Thursday.
Bellamkonda said their team truly maintained and monitored the storage and cold supply chain of Sputnik V in a relationship with the Laboratory of Dr.
Reddy and Indigo Airlines.
“We are equipped with three upscale refrigerators that are able to maintain (-) temperature of 25 degrees Celsius, the temperature needed to keep the vaccine safely,” he said.
Previously, when Dr.
Reddy had established communication with several private hospitals in Assam, logistics problems in the northeast were worrying.
The temperature needed in the cold chain to store sputnik v is much lower than the requirements for covaxin and covishield, which is usually stored at 2 to 4 degrees Celsius.
Sputnik v needs to be stored between -20 and -25 degrees Celsius.
Sputnik V received a use approval in India by DGCI on April 13 through the Laboratory of Dr.
Reddy.
“Sputnik V is one of the three vaccines in the world with more than 90% of the efficacy More than 65 countries, “Bellamkonda said.
Among those who get Sputnik V vaccines here are employees of several industrial units who cannot take the time to queue in government hospitals to get vaccination.
“We have a busy work schedule.
So our company made arrangements to trace that was informed to us well before,” said Santosh Dwivedi, who works with a pharmaceutical company in Kukurmara near Guwahati.
The Ministry of Health continuously monitors how Sputnik V vaccines are given at Narayana hospitals established in North Guwahati in public-private partnership mode.
“Maybe because of the low price factor, Sputnik V is preferred by several hospitals.
Because there is a big rush for Covaxin and Covishield, getting a new vaccine may be easier,” Spokesman for Immunization and Director of Health Services (Family Welfare), Assam, Munindra Nath Nattey, said.
Even though around 70.65 people Lakh at Assam received the first JAD to date, there was no certainty when they would get a second shot.
After the gap between two widely available covishield shots extended to 12-16 weeks in this country, the speed of inoculation has diminished in the state.
The low vaccine supply is also responsible for this slowdown.
But future dangers are the third possible third wave.
The researchers have found that the severity of infection is low among patients who get both Jab.