Nagpur: Deprived of Covid-19 vaccine for the last one-and-a-half month after their institution failed to register them on time, students of Vidya Shikshan Prasarak Mandal’s Dental College and Research Centre at Digdoh, Hingna, got the jab after the Central government allowed on-spot registration and vaccination also for healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs).
Many HCWs and FLWs who were not registered earlier have been covered since Monday.
TOI on February 7 had reported about the complaint of 72 resident doctors from the college who were not given the vaccine while others, right from professors to attendants from the college, had got the jab. These students had also worked at Covid-19 testing centres of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).
Despite the students submitting all details and documents, their institution had delayed the registration. Later, the government stopped registration in Co-Win application.
The government had rolled out vaccine for age-appropriate group and allowed on-spot registration from Monday. At the same time, the government had also permitted unregistered HCW and FLW to avail the benefit.
The officials and students confirmed that these 71 students were vaccinated after the government allowed on-spot registration. One student could not take the jab due to testing positive for Covid-19.
Vice-president of Maharashtra Medical Council Dr Vinky Rughwani said, “Some HCWs working in hospitals were not registered for various reasons. They are getting vaccine now and the process is very simple,” he said.
Over 3,000 HCWs from the district were not registered. Some of them are yet to be inoculated and are likely to be covered in the next few days.
Chief medical officer of police department, Dr Sandeep Shinde, said, “On-spot registration and vaccination has benefited large number of FLWs. Even police personnel of other districts are taking jab at police hospital here. They just need to bring copy of Aadhaar,” he said.
Earlier, HCWs and FLWs were registered on Co-Win application. Then the authorities scheduled vaccination of 100-200 per day per centre. Now, this process has been replaced with a simple system.