Mumbai: The response to Covid-19 vaccination among children aged 15-17 years is poor, with only 16% of the 9.2 lakh children who qualify after taking a shot so far.
The reason was reported by the use of BMC only for nine Jumbo Covid care hospitals instead of all 400-strange vaccination centers.
Unlike Mumbai, 90% of 72,823 children who qualified within the boundaries of Navi Mumbai have taken shots since the trip began in 3.
January, 41% of 60.6 children who qualified Lakh had taken vaccines until Saturday.
In the national capital Delhi, 5.5 lakh or nearly 55% of 10.1 teenagers who met the requirements of Lakh had taken their first Covaxin shots.
In a thin amount, Pune (2.3 lakh) and Bengaluru (2.1 lakh) had been better than Mumbai, who had been vaccinated by 1.5 lakh children until Saturday.
Teen drives in all BMC Vax centers from Tomorrownagpur have vaccinated 1.2 lakh and kolkata around 1.2 lakh in this age group.
When contacted, BMC Executive Health Officer Dr.
Mangala Gomare said BMC would start offering a vaccine to the pediatric age group in all vaccination centers next week.
“We will offer vaccines even in small centers at the environment level so children can go to the nearest center in their home to get shots,” he said.
Children must take a second shot of 28 separate days.
Dr.
Gomare believes that coverage will “jump” in the next few days.
“We only need to overcome timings,” he said.
“We may offer Covaxin which can be given to the age group 15-18 in the first half of the day and covishield in the second half or vice versa,” he said.
This will be done to ensure that there is no Mixup in providing a covaxin vaccine to children.
A civilian senior official said BMC had followed the advice of the member of the State Task Force which said that children must be vaccinated in a controlled environment to avoid unwanted incidents.
“Obviously, limited access results in poor absorption,” officials who do not want to be identified.
“In addition, imports of someone who fainted did not reduce whether it happened in the center of Jumbo or sub-center,” officially added.
BMC has also been hanging out in NGOs such as Project Mumbai to do special drives in schools and colleges that target children.
The drive was first held at St John’s Universal School at Goregaon (West) on Saturday.
The experience of Navi Mumbai underlined how to create more centers help cover the population faster.
“We are running a Mega campaign in as many as 206 schools, including civilian schools, across the city.
So far, the drive witnessed a response that encouraged as children with parents queued in vaccination centers to be immunized with the first dose.
From Vax, “said an official.
According to the source of the NMMC health department, as many as 65,498 young people (from 72,823) got themselves vaccinated until now.
(With b b nayak)
Mumbai is inoculating only 16% from 15-17 years, Maha 41%
