Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Jan 8: In the light of the upcoming COVID19 vaccination movement covering the entire country, dry run of the drive is being undertaken in the district on Friday January 8 to put to test the efficacy of the preparations made by the district administration for vaccination.

The dry run will be undertaken in eight centres across the district. The programme will be set into motion at 10 am at Koosamma Shambhu Shetty Haji Abdulla Memorial Mother and Child government hospital here. The drill will also be in operation at Dr TMA Pai Hospital, Adarsha Hospital, urban health centre, Karkala taluk hospital, Kandlur primary health centre Kundapur, and community health centres at Hebri and Brahmavar.

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Arrangement to store COVID vaccine at the storage facility created at the office of the district health and family welfare officer has been made. From there, vaccines will be transported to identify Covid chain point hospitals all over the district. Later, the vaccines will be delivered at the distribution centres through the vaccine transportation equipment.

Five persons will be handling the work at the distribution centre. Document verification is conducted at the waiting room while vaccination room is used for vaccinating the patients. Once they are vaccinated, the recipients are kept for half an hour in the observation room where their health condition is monitored, officials said.

In the first phase, COVID warriors will get the vaccination. Already over 19,500 have registered themselves for the vaccine in the district so far. They include private and government doctors, nurses, officers, staff and the D category workers. In the first phase, health workers will get vaccination twice and 44,000 doses are needed.

During the dry run, all other aspects will be performed as per preparations except the actual vaccination. If any problems are found, the health department will take corrective measures.