Kolkata: The first performance of the first day of the launch of the booster dose saw many health workers (HCWS) taking precautions on Monday.
Senior doctors, nurses, and other supporting staff lead many of them who took the third dose mostly at the hospital where they were bound.
However, health officials said that the response on the first day, however, was just lukewarm for the kind of commotion from the health care community for the Booster Jab.
“The primary dosage was launched on Monday and 35,081 people took this dose,” said Ajay Chakraborty, Director of Health Services.
“Even though many in the health care community getting an infection more than once I managed to remain negative during the second wave of the current wave.
I was relieved that I took my third dose today.
This dose must also work as a moral booster for HCW on the face of the current infection , “said the IPGMER ENT Head Arunabha Sengupta.
The Professor of Operation has received severe infection during the first wave that has landed in the ICU.
Sengupta is one of the senior doctors who took the Booster on Ipgmer on Monday.
“The infection never caught me even once during the entire pandemic.
I hope this dose of booster will help me maintain infection away in the future also along with my behavior adhering to Covid-19,” said Belle Vue CEO Pradip Tondaon.
While hospitals like Belle Vue where Jab for HCW was sponsored by the hospital – 398 of them took a booster shot on Monday – a private hospital that did not have a policy to sponsor the third Jab see HCWS which was very low taking shots.
“340 from HCW we got a booster shot on the first day.
We will offer a dose of this free prevention action for all our health workers,” said R Venkates, regional director (east) Narayana Health.
In some private hospitals, the number of HCW takes a booster dose ranging from 10 and 60.
Despite a large number of HCW on house isolation, medical colleges saw a decent election on Monday.
“We are around 352 HCW which includes a very senior doctor taking the third dose in our Hospital CVC today.
Hopefully the count will rise further,” said a doctor who was involved in drive vaccination in IPGMER, CVC in IPGMER was between sites The government provides a high number of doses.
Health officials said about the 35,000 plus booster dose given on Monday, more than 70% would be on HCW while the rest was at the forefront and senior citizens.
Officials said that they had opened a limited slot on Monday to see how the co-win portal function and hoped to increase the number of slots in the coming days.
“We have to get more people who come for a dose of booster in about two to three days.
We hope to spend between 4 and 4.5 lakh booster doses in January-end,” said the family welfare officer of the Ashim Watershate of the Malang Between senior health officials who took the third dose on Monday.