Uttar Pradesh: Staff of all private hospitals to be covered in third round

Lucknow: Health care workers of hospitals which have not been made vaccination centres so far will also get jabs in the third round.

District immunisation officer Dr MK Singh said that in the immunisation round starting from Thursday, hospitals that have been made vaccination centres will first inoculate their employees and once their entire staff is covered, they will give shots to health workers of other private hospitals.

About 51,000 health care workers are listed in the city for vaccination. The first two rounds witnessed 70% and 58% turnout respectively. So far, 6,275 workers have been vaccinated—832 on January 16 and 5,433 on January 22.

The remaining four rounds to be held on Thursday and Friday and then Wednesday and Thursday next week will be bigger. These rounds will not only have more centres, but also more people will be vaccinated per booth.

On Thursday, the target is to inoculate 14,250 intended beneficiaries. The drive will be carried out in 114 booths across 43 hospitals: government and private. Every booth will give shots to 125 persons in comparison to 100 earlier.

Covaxin will be administered to 700 intended beneficiaries at three government hospitals: Rani Laxmibai Hospital, SPM Civil Hospital and Lokbandhu Hospital. Covishield will be given to selected beneficiaries in the remaining 40 centres.

KGMU is the biggest centre with seven booths followed by six at SGPGIMS and five at RMLIMS.

As many as 21 community health centres have been converted into cold chain points where vaccines were transferred on Wednesday night. These vaccines will be shifted on Thursday morning to vaccine centres.

The drive will take place from 9 am to 5 pm.


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