BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Friday asked healthcare and
anganwadi workers to get themselves enrolled with the respective district administrations for
Covid-19 vaccine, as the Centre has begun the process of making a database of ‘priority people’ for the anticipated
vaccination programme, whenever it is rolled out.
Additional chief secretary (health) Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra, who attended a video-conference with the Union
health ministry officials earlier in the day, said, “The Centre has asked us to prepare the database of healthcare nd anganwadi workers within a week. They are the top priority for the vaccine, whenever it is launched.”
The state health department asked the healthcare and anganwadi workers to enrol themselves by October 29 and October 25, respectively“On October 16, the Centre had first asked us to enrol health professionals. On Friday, it asked us to include anganwadi workers as well,” he said.
Mohapatra wrote to the associations of doctors, nurses and paramedics asking them to apprise their members of the matter. He also wrote separately to the women and child development department for listing of anganwadi workers, helpers, supervisors and child development protection officers involved in integrated child development programmes.
“From what we understand, the Centre will supply the vaccine to the priority groups in phases, under the supervision of the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI), with a uniform policy for the entire country. For the first phase, the lists of health and anganwadi professionals are being prepared,” he said.
The Centre has been preparing the database of people to be vaccinated on an online platform called ‘Covid-19 Vaccination Beneficiary Management System’. The potential beneficiaries need to register their details complete with Aadhar numbers through the district administrations and municipal corporations, government sources said.
Meanwhile, the Covid death toll in
Odisha breached the 1200-mark. With 18 more succumbing to the infection, the virus deaths touched 1,214.