Kolkata: The Civic body has begun sending health workers to households throughout the city with a coupon that will ensure a vaccination slot without queuing at the Civic vaccination center.
This door-to-door visit by health workers was launched last week and will continue until the end of this month, said a senior health department Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) official.
The coupon distribution scheme is planned after swimming in the number of second-dose recipients at the Civic Clinic, said an official.
According to the plan, the Ministry of Health KMC has assigned three honorary health workers for each of the 144 people spread throughout the city and each of them was given a target of visiting 100 households every day.
“We have set a target to reach around 43,000 households a day to track people who are not vaccinated in each of these households.
Based on the results of the survey at the end of the week, and the presence at our vaccination clinic, we will take the next steps needed to spread awareness Among those who have not taken JAB or wait for the second dose, “said the KMC health department official.
With thousands of districts flowing into Kolkata vaccination centers, city receivers – especially parents – have found it difficult to get a slot.
The queue for tokens has been formed early in the morning with them from outside the city limits often surpassing and overhauling the locals, making the last week waiting.
The Coupon-AT-Doorstep scheme will help them pass through the queue, said citizenship officials.
Thousands in Kolkata continued to wait for their second dose in June-July, a period that also saw vaccine equipment slowed.
According to a KMC official, another reason behind swimming in the number of second-dose recipients is that senior citizens are afraid of the construction crowd at the Civic vaccination clinic.
“Some of our vaccination clinics, especially those in the southern edge and the area located in the center, have witnessed waves of recipients from various parts of the south and North 24 parganas.
This surge may have a scare senior citizen and they might wait for the snake queue at The clinic to get short.
If the senior citizens are given a coupon that ensures their vaccination, they will appear in large quantities, “said a senior official Ministry of Health KMC.
In early August, KMC has announced a scheme to vaccinate them above 80 and weak at home in several regions.
But it was quickly drawn.
In mid-August, the authority of the citizenship announced this scheme and set a complicated set of rules for drives.
But the drive never took off after the court ruling.