Bokaro: A new Covid-19 vaccination centre was opened at Bokaro General Hospital (BHG) on Saturday to add to the existing 11 centres in different blocks of the district and the sadar hospital.
Director in-charge of Bokaro Steel Limited (BSL) Amarendu Prakash was present during the beginning of the vaccination drive to motivate the health workers. BGH also set up two selfie points for photographs after successful doses.
Civil surgeon Dr A K Pathak said, “Bokaro has responded well to the vaccination drive. Almost 80% beneficiaries at each centre are getting inoculated daily. The remaining 20% are those who either did not receiving any message on their mobile phones or have cold and cough. However, these people have assured that they will take the shots soon.”
The approval to set up a vaccination centre at BGH was given by the health department as it was informed that there are 1,100 beneficiaries, including surgeons, doctors, nurses and other staff members of the hospital, whom the vaccine is to be administered.
BGH executive director, medical services, Dr A K Singh said, “Among the 1,100, 200 are doctors, 275 nurses, 75 attendants, 60 home guards and the rest are cleaners, sweepers and other frontline health workers who will be inoculated at BGH. There is no hesitancy among them and on the first day, about 80 beneficiaries of the hospital had taken the vaccine. It is a good start.”
Since the beginning of the drive, 2,980 people have taken the shots and a total of 11,543 people are to be inoculated in the first phase in the district.