Bhubaneswar: With the center asking all states to launch a special drive “Har Ghar Dousak” (tap every door) to increase the coverage of daily covid vaccination, Odisha has planned massive exercises to reach them, who have not received a single dose.
It will focus on the extremist left wing (LWE) affected and cannot be accessed by places that have tribal populations, especially tribal groups that are very vulnerable (PVTG).
Places dominated by tribes, the cut-off area (where poor connectivity) and the Maoist area, where people are not easy out to take vaccines have witnessed the progress of vaccination that is very slow.
“For special drives, we have involved perfresenters in addition to Asha, Anganwadi workers, and auxiliary nurse midwives (ANM).
They were asked to visit every household even in remote areas to make a list so that everyone was revealed to take a vaccine list on the nearest site .
Asha workers have undergone a job to visit people, who will take the final dose of the Covid vaccine to accelerate the coverage of the second dose, “said Bijay Panigrahi, Director, family welfare.
He said the main challenges were staring at them carrying those who were not vaccinated to vaccination locations and managing doses.
“We have 67 lakh people left to receive the first dose in accordance with the target revision of 3.25 Crore recipients because we have given 2.58 crore people with the first dose.
The encouragement that will start from Tuesday will be very helpful in December.
The end of the deadline , “Panigrahi added.