LUCKNOW: Ahead of the actual rollout, a dry run for Covid-19
vaccination will be conducted at six places in the city on Saturday.
Health minister Jai Pratap Singh said the drive will be monitored to share the experience with other districts. “The entire exercise will be monitored at the state level to ensure that the process is executed flawlessly,” he added.
Dr M K Singh , district immunisation officer, said: “The dry run has been arranged to evaluate our preparedness as vaccine may be rolled out soon.”
The mock drill will be held at KGMU, SGPGIMS, RMLIMS, a private hospital in
Gomtinagar, community health centres in Mal and Malihabad, he added. In the dry run, vans with dummy vaccines kept in cold chain boxes will start from the Aishbagh cold chain storage and reach the
vaccination sites via vaccine carrier. At immunisation sites, the staff will take out the jabs and keep them in the inoculation room.
There will be three rooms at the vaccination sites. The entry will be allowed through the first room, where ID and other details of the recipients will be matched. The beneficiary will then be sent to the vaccination room.
In the last room, all beneficiaries will be spending 25 minutes post-vaccination.