PATNA: A
dry run before launching the mega vaccination drive against the
Covid-19 virus was organised successfully at 114 places across the state on Friday.
In Patna, the dry run was organised at four places — The
Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH), The Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), Paras Hospital and Research Centre and the government girls middle school, Khagaul. Principal secretary of health department Pratyay Amrit, state immunisation officer Dr N K Sinha and other officials inspected the local dry run centres and discussed ways to further improve the process.
The state health society executive director-cum-special secretary of the health department, Manoj Kumar, who inspected the dry run at the PMCH and the NMCH said the state was fully ready for beginning the largest immunisation drive soon after getting the consignment of
vaccines. He also discussed the CoWin app with medical professionals.
All the participating health workers, 25 at each dry run centre, had to pass through thermal scanning before entering the centres and also had to wait for 30 minutes in the observation room after completion of the exercise as per the guidelines issued by the government.
Dr Binod Kumar Singh, superintendent of the NMCH where the state vaccine house for storage and its distribution is situated, said it was a much-needed rehearsal before beginning the Covid-19 vaccination on a larger scale as the health workers became fairly acquainted with the manual and digital documentation of the details of persons to be vaccinated.