‘No free Covid vaccine for those who miss the date’: Odisha authorities tells healthcare employees
2 min read By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Healthcare employees is not going to get a second likelihood in the event that they miss their date of vaccination.
The state authorities on Monday made it clear that the beneficiaries, who wilfully refuse vaccination, is not going to get a chance to get a free Covid-19 vaccine. If they later come ahead, they should purchase it.
Additional Chief Secretary PK Mohapatra stated knowingly or unknowingly a number of the healthcare employees (HCWs) are usually not coming to session websites to get the jab.
“This is a voluntary vaccination programme and healthcare workers are at the top of the priority. The vaccine will protect them from future infection. The listed beneficiaries should come and get vaccinated when called. If they do not come, they will not get the vaccine free later,” he clarified.
Sources stated a number of HCWs are displaying reluctance to get administered the vaccines, particularly Covaxin citing that it has not cleared the Phase III trial. Mohapatra stated when senior medical doctors and administrators of the division took the vaccine; the ANMs, Anganwadi employees and nurses should have no doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine.
The vaccination drive continued to endure setbacks by way of on-line messaging and knowledge updation as a result of glitches within the Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) utility, developed by the Union authorities to observe and observe the inoculation course of.
Sources stated the system is but to perform correctly as many are usually not getting auto generated messages forcing the well being officers to personally name the healthcare employees to vaccination centres.
“Like on the launching day, not all health workers got messages about their vaccination on Monday. They were then called up over the phone. At some places the app was working slow as several vaccine receivers didn’t get post-vaccination acknowledgement. Health officials had to manually upload data on Excel sheets and fill the columns due to slow response from the server,” stated an official.
