Noida/Ghaziabad: The health departments of Noida and Ghaziabad have decided to double their daily inoculation target to 40,000 doses from July 1, when the government plans to ramp up vaccination drives in the districts.
Officials in Noida said they would increase the number of clusters to 85, where 115 additional session sites would be set up.
As of now, there are just two clusters in Dadri and Jewar blocks, where people are being administered shots under the Centre’s free vaccine policy.
The routine vaccination drive, where advance registration on Co-Win is mandatory, is also going on simultaneously.
The decision to double the target comes a day after both the districts failed to meet their daily target under the free-vaccine policy.As part of the plan to ramp up the drive, officials in Noida have decided to hold free vaccination camps in every housing society from July 1.
“We have asked the societies to submit their requisitions.
We will prepare a schedule and organise camps in every society.
It will be a free drive at people’s doorsteps, and everyone should participate in the camps,” said Neeraj Tyagi, the immunisation officer in Noida.Ghaziabad chief medical officer NK Gupta said they would eventually increase their target to 60,000 vaccinations a day.
“A higher target is needed to achieve over 40,000 jabs per day.
The health department has written to three private medical institutes to provide 100 nursing students and to the education department to send 200 teachers.
The staff nurses will help with the vaccinations while the teachers will update the details of recipients on the portal.
A training session will be held for them,” Gupta added.Meanwhile, the cluster vaccination drive, which opened to a poor response on Monday, saw more participants on Tuesday.
In Jewar, 1,500 people were vaccinated while 3,000 took the shots in Dadri.
A total of 17,280 people got vaccinated at government centres alone.In Ghaziabad, a total of 26,500 doses was administered on Tuesday.
So far, 8.9 lakh people have taken the jab in the district.
Of them, 7.7 lakh people have been given the first dose while 1.2 lakh recipients have taken both shots.Of the 26,500 people who were vaccinated in Ghaziabad, 21,732 were in the age bracket of 18-44 years, while 3,799 people were above 45 years and 924 aged over 60.The six clusters where vaccination camps were organised under the Centre’s policy were at Bhojpur, Vasundhara, Maharajpur, Makanpur, Khoda and Sadik Nagar.
Walk-in vaccinations were allowed in these camps and Asha workers involved to make people aware about the initiative.
Meanwhile, the health department in Ghaziabad has increased the number of online slots from 15,000 to 25,000 at a time.