UDHAGAMANDALAM: Following no interest in the state’s vaccine tender from vaccine producing companies, minister for Medical and Family Welfare Ma Subramanian said the government will re-initiate a global tender soon.
The minister was in Ooty on Sunday to review the Covid situation in the district.
Accompanied by TN forest minister, K Ramachandran, Subramanian inspected the upcoming medical college building in Ooty and the newly installed oxygen unit in the existing government headquarters hospital.
The health minister said, “For the tribal population in the Nilgiris, vaccination drives are being conducted at their doorstep.
Of the total population of 177 in the Chemmanatham hamlet,152 are above18 years of age.
He further said, “Once the vaccination drive is over, the tribal hamlet would be declared as the first tribal village in the state to be complete in vaccination”.
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