Ludhiana: As the vaccination process is to start from Saturday, the vaccines will be administered to health workers at five places in the district. On Thursday, consignment of vaccine, having 36,500 doses, had reached Ludhiana and was stored at civil surgeon’s office before being sent to vaccination sites.
Civil surgeon Dr Sukhjeevan Kakkar confirmed that on the first day, vaccines will be administered to health care workers at five places. He added that vaccination will start at around 11.30am.
Health department officials said vaccines will be injected to healthcare workers at five special vaccine sites — civil hospital in Ludhiana, sub-divisional hospitals in Khanna and Jagraon and at two private hospitals, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) and Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH).
Health department officials further said five teams will carry out vaccination at these five special sites from 11.30am to around 5pm. They added that they expect that five health care workers will be vaccinated on the first day.
“The vaccination sites might be increased after day one and are expected to increase in the coming days. Initially they had decided to set up around 150 such sites but due to certain reasons, they decreased such sites for inaugural day to just five,” said a health department source. “In the private set up, 20 sites are made at DMCH, 16 at CMCH, eight at Deep Hospital, six each at Mohandai Oswal Hospital and Fortis Hospital. In government sector, six vaccination sites were made at civil hospital Ludhiana, four at Mother and Child Hospital (MCH) Vardhman, two each at sub-divisional hospitals at Khanna and Jagraon, equal number at civil hospitals at Raikot and Samrala. Two sites each were made at CHC Payal, CHC Pakhowal, CHC Sahnewal whereas one site each was made at CHC Sidhwan Bet and CHC Manupur.” He added that in future all such sites may be used for vaccination.