Kolkata: The Bengali government wants to include 15-year-old students in educational institutions and has set a rigid target to provide the first dose to 48 Lakh recipients within one month from the January 3 launch.
Both of them were the most important among the decisions taken during the meeting between the UNI Ministry of Health officials, Head of Secretary of State HK Dwivedi and the Health Office officials and the Ministry of Health.
The meeting discussed the outline of the drive vaccination of children, officials said.
More detailed guidelines will be framed in the next few days.
“We want to offer Jab to children in the age group 15-18 in their respective schools (for those who study at school).
We believe this will facilitate a more organized drive and better coverage.
We intend to cover the first dose For this age group in one month from the launch, “said Narayan Swaroop Narayan Narayan Secretary.
Health and education officials are expected to meet again on Wednesday to find out the ins and outs of the policy decision to provide a vaccine to this age group.
Senior officials are interested in establishing vaccination sites in high school, with all of them following the same rules and protocols with workplace vaccination centers.
The State Health Department will establish these sites and also send a vaccination team, which will include doctors to monitor the recipient for the AEFI case (bad events after immunization).
Schools tend to be asked to help pre-register students.
Registration for this drive will start this Saturday, January 1.
Health officials say cold chains and vaccine supply will not be a problem.
Covaxin, the only vaccine for this age group, can be stored at a temperature of between 2 ° C and 8 ° C.
The state on Tuesday has a stock of 48 doses of lakh covaxin.
“It’s winter and hot factors don’t exist.
So the vaccine operator used for routine immunization must be enough to save the bottle,” said the Welfare Officer of the Ashim Watershed state of the state.
This vaccine operator can store bottles for 24 hours.
The target on the first day (next Monday) will provide at least 100 doses in each school.
State health department officials can send more vials from the nearest cold chain point according to request.
“We want to observe how the co-win application functions on the first day.
We can offer more doses every day if there is no mistake,” said a senior health official.
Officials also make provisions for dropping out of school and children aged 15 to 18 years which may be school students elsewhere but now in Bengal.
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