Prayagraj: Witnessing low turnout of recipients at rural-based vaccination centres i.e.
community \ primary health centres (CHCs\ PHCs) at the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination drive, the officials of the health department are busy chalking out a micro plan to reach out to eligible recipients especially those whose villages are located far from community \ primary health centres.
Officials claimed that many villages in the district are very far from community or community sub-health centres and primary health centres and that the eligible beneficiaries have to travel over a long distance for getting vaccinated.
However, officials, after preparing a list of villages that are far from vaccination centres, are chalking out a plan to set up special camps at prominent village markets, gram sabha, primary schools, panchayat Bhawan and ANM centres to cover the maximum rural crowd of recipients.
For that, two special vaccination teams would be deployed at each block and a team of primary health workers like ASHA, ANM and Anganwadi workers would be informing the eligible recipients about the details of the special vaccination drive in advance and appealing them to get inoculated.
Additional chief medical officer and Nodal officer (National Health Mission) Dr Satyendra Rai told TOI that the department is preparing a micro plan to cover the maximum number of rural-based eligible recipients for vaccination and at least two special teams would be deployed at every block of the district.
He added, “We are making sincere efforts to increase the turnout at the rural-based vaccination centres and after finding out that a section of recipients could not reach CHC\PHC concerned for vaccination because of the long-distance.
We would be holding special camps at primary schools, panchayat bhawan, ANM centres, anganwadi centres, and gram sabha bhawans.
Officials, meanwhile, claimed that in contrast to rural areas, there has been an increasingly better response in urban areas where people agree that vaccination is the only key to beat the virus.
As a result, there has been an increase in the number of recipients at urban vaccination centres.
As many as 6,21,948 shots were administered to recipients of all age groups, including those above 45 years and between the age group of 18-44 in the district till June 5.
While 5,02,760 beneficiaries had taken the first dose of vaccine, a total of 1,19,587 recipients had also received the second dose of the vaccine.
Figures of the health department revealed that on average, over 10,000 vaccine doses were administered to beneficiaries daily of all age groups, including 45 plus and recipients between the age group of 18-44 years in the district.
For instance, a total of 10,106 vaccine shots were administered to recipients of all age groups in the past 24 hours which included 7,232 recipients of the first dose and 2,874 of the second dose.