Nagpur: Orange City Hospital and Research Institute (OCHRI) has set yet another record of sorts. It vaccinated 170 health care workers within eight hours on Monday, which is probably the highest in a single day at any of the 111 centres located in 11 districts of Vidarbha.
Director of OCHRI Dr Anup Marar told TOI, “Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) scheduled 150 health care staff for our centre on Monday. But only 34 of them turned up. Some private hospitals in nearby areas are always inquiring about their turn. With due permission from NMC, we scheduled 136 registered health care workers in Co-WIN application on the spot.”
Dr Marar thanked NMC officials, including medical officer Dr Sanjay Chilkar. “Our centre did not have adequate vials. Dr Chilkar and team arranged vials immediately, which helped in vaccinating 170. OCHRI team is selflessly trying its best to sensitize fraternity to value this precious vaccine, which is being provided free of cost to health care workers,” he said.
Thus, OCHRI vaccinated around 21-22 health care staff in one hour. During dry run, 25 dummy staff were covered in two hours without actual vaccination.
OCHRI’s first record was that it did not waste a single dose in the last three days. The record continued for the fourth day too, with 170 covered on Monday.
The centre at NMC’s Isolation Hospital also vaccinated 155 persons on Monday, which is probably the second highest.
The achievement of OCHRI and Isolation Hospital was 170% and 155%, as all authorities are calculating the percentage as per 100 per centre, despite scheduling 120-150 vaccinations per centre.
The turnout at Kingsway Hospital was 148% followed by 141% at Alexis Hospital, 129% at ESIS Hospital, 126% at NMC’s Pachpaoli Hospital, and 104% at Wockhardt Hospital. Thus, 7 of 17 centres in city recorded achievement over 100%, which is probably for the first time since start of vaccination on January 16.
TOI had on Monday highlighted only 440 (20.79%) of 2,116 health care workers of Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), the single centre for Covaxin in six districts of Nagpur division, had turned up for inoculation in 10 days.
On Monday, GMCH registered its highest vaccination in a single day. At one centre, 78 took the jab and 65 at second centre, for a total of 143.
After a gap of two days, vaccination programme resumed on Monday, with 7,813 (70.39%) of targeted 11,100 health care workers having taken the jab in 11 districts of Vidarbha. Amravati district was the only from the region to achieve target above 100%.
Total number of health care workers administered vaccine in the region increased to 62,735 (39.35%) out of the total 1,59,427.
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*District-Wise Vaccination In Vid
Centre-------Target------Vaccinated--%
Nagpur-------3,000------------2,065------68.83
Bhandara-----700--------------461--------65.86
Chandrapur-1,100-------------985--------89.54
Gadchiroli---800----------------353--------44.12
Gondia-------800----------------549--------68.62
Wardha-----1,100--------------1,071------97.36
Ngp Div—7,500------------5,484-------73.12
Akola---------500----------------327-----------65.4
Amravati-----700----------------727-----------104
Buldhana---1,000---------------371-----------37.1
Washim------500----------------275-----------55
Yavatmal-----900----------------629----------69.9
Amt Div ---3,600-------------2,329--------64.7
Vidarbha---11,100-------------7,813--------70.39