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Himachal Pradesh, Thursday would be the last date of the mop-up round for the Covid-19 vaccination of healthcare workers. All the districts have been informed this in the review meeting regarding the Covid vaccination drive held on Wednesday with all the districts and chaired by mission director of National Health Mission, Himachal Pradesh,
Dr Nipun Jindal.
Till now, more than 78% of registered healthcare workers have been vaccinated in the state. So far only 0.5% AEFI cases have been reported, of which only one needed hospitalization.
Jindal said that Himachal Pradesh is the leading state in the country in 2nd dose coverage of health care workers, achieving more than 91% of the expected target.
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Chief Medical Officers were directed to prepare the list of all such Health Care Workers who are registered on CoWIN portal, but have not been vaccinated for first dose till date. District wise coverage was also shared with the districts. Districts have been directed to create sessions for all such left out beneficiaries as per requirement to ensure maximum coverage of Health Care Workers (HCWs). All the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) were further directed to analyse and review their block wise coverage to assess the left-out beneficiaries and to further direct their Block Medical Officers to arrange sessions in all the blocks. It was also reiterated to utilize all available channels of communication to reach out the left out beneficiaries.
Nipun Jindal said this will be the last chance for all HCWs to get the first dose of vaccine. He appealed to all registered but not vaccinated health care workers for reporting to their nearest session site on Thursday for getting vaccinated irrespective of receiving SMS for the session scheduling. Such beneficiaries will be scheduled on-site.
He also appealed to the beneficiaries to ignore any rumors and come forward to get themselves vaccinated as the vaccine is completely safe.