NAGPUR: With only a day left for deadline given by the state government, around 53% healthcare workers (HCW) took the Covid-19 vaccine in 11 districts of
Vidarbha on Friday. The second dose of HCW will begin from February 15 before which the government has asked all the districts to finish with the first dose by February 14.
As per the state government’s data, 1,34,151 HCW and frontline workers (FLW) were vaccinated in the region between January 16 and February 12. Of the total, 1,05,273 are HCW and remaining 28,878 are FLW.
Total 1.60 lakh HCW had registered for taking the jab before the launch of vaccination programme on January 16. Though the exact count could not be known, it is believed that the registered number of HCW increased to around 2 lakh. Thus, 52.6% HCW have turned up for the inoculation till date.
Collector Ravindra Thakre and district health officer Dr Dipak Selokar, in a press conference on Friday, claimed that the turnout of HCW is 75.5% in Nagpur rural. “Vaccination percentage gradually increased with each passing day. It will be 100% for sure,” Thakre said.
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) increased vaccination centres for FLW from seven to 12 on Friday considering the low turnout from the HCW. Now, there are only seven centres for the HCW.
The civic body has also discontinued one of the two centres at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).
Of the total target of 1,900, 1,051 (55.3%) HCW and FLW took the jab at 19 centres in the city on Friday.
Total 349 (49.8%) of the targeted 700 HCW turned up for the inoculation. In case of FLW, 702 (58.5%) of the targeted 1,200 took the jab.
The turnout of FLW at the centre situated in Kingsway Hospital was highest at 150% followed by 122% by HCW at NMC’s Isolation Hospital and 100% by FLW at CIIMS Hospital. The remaining centres saw percentage below 100 and lowest of 7% was witnessed at the AIIMS centre.
Despite witnessing low turnout, Orange City Hospital and Research Institute (OCHRI) and Alexis Hospital continued to ensure record of zero wastage of doses.