Jaisalmer: Seeing the indifference of villagers in Jaisalmer and Barmer towards the second dose for Covid, administration in these two districts conducting a ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ vaccination campaign.
In the villages located on the indo-sir border, the campaign is being carried out on camels and tractors.
Regardless of strong geographical and severe cold conditions, health workers vaccinate the public.
There are border areas in Barmer and villages that come in the desert national park area without roads.
Here health officials use camels.
Midwife midwife midwife (ANM) Mukesh, which was deployed at Sundara said that the camel was used for covid vaccination, children’s immunization and even when giving a decrease in polio pulses.
The last village on the border is in the area prohibited by the Desert National Park that does not have basic facilities.
Mukesh said that he was deployed in the sub-center for the past 20 months and there were no facilities to stay here.
People are less educated in this area, so they sometimes find it difficult to tell the local residents about vaccination and other schemes.
People here don’t understand the importance of vaccines against Covid.
Health Minister Union Mansukh Mandaviya shared a photo of a health worker to the camel to provide a vaccine on his Twitter handle.
Jaisalmer faces the same problem.
Seeing this, the Ashish Modi district collector directs health officials to vaccinate people who are deprived of the first and second dose.
District education officers also direct the Basic Education officers of Panchayat from all high schools to make people aware of the need to vaccinate Covid.
Cmo Dr.
Kunal Sahu said that special campaigns will be held for vaccination.
He said that until now 85% of the population in Jaisalmer had been given the first dose while 62% of the population had been given the second dose.