Odisha to Scale Up COVID Vaccination Drive In State From Tomorrow | OTV News

Bhubaneswar: In an effort to speed up the vaccination course of towards Covid-19, the Odisha Health Department has determined conduct 5 classes in every medical school from tomorrow.
As per Bijay Panigrahi, the Director of Odisha Health Department, all of the medical schools in Odisha will inoculate 1000 individuals every in a day unfold in 5 classes, making it 200 vaccine pictures in every session.
Similarly, all of the District Headquarters Hospitals (DHHs) and Sub-Divisional Hospitals within the State will assist immunise 200 individuals a day unfold throughout two classes making it 100 vaccine pictures per session.
The Community Health Centres and Urban Health Centres will likely be giving 100 doses of vaccines a day in a single session.
Besides, each vaccination centre will likely be manned by six vaccine in-charges who will monitor and supervise the method.
Notably, a complete of 13,980 well being care skilled got vaccine pictures on the primary day of the drive which begun on Saturday.
The Odisha authorities has set a goal of offering vaccine pictures to three.28 lakh healthcare personnel registered within the portal by 25 January 2021. However, as per Panigrahi, “only 1,92,555 health workers will be getting the first shot of the vaccine in the first phase of the drive, then after 28 days the same number of health workers will get the second shot of the vaccine to complete the immunisation process.”
The Odisha authorities on Saturday started its immunization drive at 161 websites unfold throughout 30 districts of the state. The state has obtained 4.08 lakh doses of Covishield vaccine and 20,000 doses of Covaxin vaccine within the first section and dispatched these to the chilly chain factors within the districts.
(Edited By Ramakanta Biswas)

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