PUNE: A vaccination drive for senior citizens residing in the Dehu Road cantonment areas will begin from Tuesday at the Babasaheb Ambedkar Cantonment General Hospital.
Dehu Road Cantonment Board didn’t have a vaccination centre ever since the nationwide launch of the drive started on January 16. All the healthcare workers and frontline workers in its jurisdiction had to travel to the Aundh district hospital to be administered the vaccine shot.
R Harital, the cantonment board’s CEO, said, “For senior citizens, travelling to the Aundh hospital is inconveniencing. So, we demanded a vaccination centre in our cantonment area for them. The Pune district administration has given its sanction for the centre and we will start the drive from Tuesday at our hospital with an initial target of 100 inoculations per day.”
Raghuvir Shelar, the former vice-president of the cantonment, said the district administration needed to pay attention towards the Dehu Road area.