Chandigarh: giving encouragement to drive Covid vaccination that is ongoing, the Punjab government is ready to launch a special campaign to autoculate students over 18 years and staff, both administrative and academic, in state universities.
Special camps will be held in universities for the purpose and all students and staff who meet the requirements will be given the first dose of vaccines in July.
The decision for this effect was taken during a meeting of the health response committee and the procurement committee chaired by the Head of Secretary Vini Mahajan.
He asked the Department of Health and Family Welfare to appoint teams in the state and district levels for weekly reviews for positive Covid data to ring a warning every time the level of participation rises anywhere in the state.
He also asked Hussan Lal’s main health secretary to appoint a nodal officer to ensure the optimal utilization of Covid’s health infrastructure in the earliest state.
Calling for aggressive contact contacts and testing to maintain a surge in viruses under control, the main secretary directs the health department to ensure complete accuracy in entering and updating data testing on Cova cellular applications by all districts.
He said this must also be reflected in the Daily Covid report.
LAL was asked to assign this responsibility to an official.
Asking the Ministry of Health to review the availability of kit Fateh in all health and fitness centers in addition to all other health care institutions in the state, the main secretary calls for status reports in this regard.
In addition, PHSC was instructed to prepare a 270 ambulance fleet, including those obtained after 2017, and old ambulance scrap, which was not feasible to use.
Emphasizing the need for adequate health workers, the right training and equipment needed to defeat the spread of the virus, the main secretary said that the establishment of new health institutions, including CHCS, PHC and trauma centers, in addition to the existing health infrastructure upgrade, should be the earliest finish , Mahajan directed the Department of Medical Education to take problems overhaul the facilities at the PGI satellite center in Sangrur and AIims in Bathinda with the center, so they can overcome the possibility of the third covid wave.
Hussan Lal provides the main secretary that 72.12.629 People who meet the requirements have been invested so far and the drive will be done at full speed to ensure the scope of every citizen who qualifies.
Punjab to start a Covid vaccination drive in the state
