NEW DELHI: Delhi’s
Covid vaccination turnout touched 91.5% on Monday as a result of growing acceptance of made in India vaccines among
healthcare workers. 7,408 out of 8,100 people got the jab, highest in a day since the vaccination drive began, and only 14 adverse events were reported.
People who got vaccinated in the last one week are doing well and reporting to work as before thus leaving many others inspired. Some of the hospitals vaccinated more than 100 people on Monday --Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital vaccinated and ILBS Hospital vaccinated 110 people each while
Babasaheb Ambedkar Hospital administered the shots to 140 people, Acharya Shree Bhikshu Hospital to 129.
Delhi government taking a number of measures, including allowing walk-ins, counselling and mobilising healthcare workers and promoting visible feedback of vaccinated individuals to promote vaccine acceptance are also among the reasons for high turnout.
The overall turnout was only 53% on the first day, 44% on the second day and 48% on the third day, 73% on Thursday and increased to 86% on Saturday.
Authorities also attributed the jump in the turnout to the negligible number of adverse effects being seen. All the 14 people reporting adverse events post inoculation on Monday had minor issues and no one needed hospitalisation. Minor issues in some people post inoculation is routine for almost all vaccines. Only a few dozen among the 33170 healthcare workers who received the jabs in the past one week have reported adverse events.
Across all the hospitals many healthcare workers not included in the list of persons to be vaccinated, walked in to get the jab as the government allowed walk-ins among the registered healthcare workers to get the jab. Out of 100 people vaccinated at
Lok Nayak Hospital, 35 were walk-ins.
“The acceptance of the vaccine is growing very fast because healthcare workers watch the vaccinated ones reporting no major adverse events. All of them are coming to the office with confidence. It is motivating others because of multiple interventions we have made,” said Suresh Kumar, medical director Lok Nayak Hospital.