Koderma: As many as six health centres have been selected in Koderma for holding the dry run for Covid-19 vaccine on Friday as a part of the nationwide drive ahead of the actual rollout.
Talking to TOI on Thursday, additional chief medical officer Dr A B Prasad said, “All ground works have been done and we are set to go for the mega mock drill.” He added that the dry run will be crucial to evaluate the preparedness ahead of the actual rollout to prevent any glitches during the inoculation.
“The dry run will take place in four steps. The first step would be to control the crowd that will arrive at the vaccination centres, followed by their registration, then the process of vaccination and thereafter keeping them under observation at a separate room for half an hour. The registration and the status of vaccination will be uploaded on a real-time basis on the coWIN app, a mobile application designed by the Union government for the purpose,” he said.
About the participants for the dry run, he said 50 people will be covered at every vaccine session site in the dry run. “At all the six sites, there will be five officials each — four vaccine officers and one vaccinator,” he said, adding that as many as 3,234 health workers have been selected as a priority group for actual vaccination in the first phase after the rollout. On the storage facilities, he said, “The district has a capacity to store 2.57 lakh vaccines at its warehouse here.”