Hyderabad: Despite the insufficient supply of vaccines from the center, the new initiatives of the state government prove to promote and reduce the risk factor among the state population.
In addition to identifying and vaccinating persons belonging to high-risk groups, the Chandrashekhar Rao government has focused on conducting house-to-house fever surveillance around persons with Covid-19 symptoms and offer their treatment in isolation through the home Covid-19 sets containing the necessary medicine.
Telangana State has the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic in the most effective way compared to other states, especially the neighboring states. During the second wave, the government introduced several preventive measures, in addition to providing treatment to the Covid-infected patients. In a strategic way, the government launched a door-to-door fever survey and managed to identify a large number of people Covid-19 symptoms. All these persons are provided Covid-19 medicine sets and their health are regularly monitored to reduce the risk factor.
Furthermore, the Prime Minister devised a new initiative to fully vaccinate persons among 24 high-risk groups, including providers of essential products and services such as ration traders, RTC staff, street vendors, car-rickshaw drivers, drivers, and also journalists. Officials have identified such groups and vaccinated them across the state. At 10.04 people identified among high-risk groups, Covid-19 The vaccine was administered on 5 June to approximately 4.14 lakh persons. Without waiting for supplies from the Central Government, the state also focuses on administering the vaccine dose to people with chronic ailments such as cancer, dialysis and other such diseases.
Among the high-risk groups, officials administered about 64 percent of the 33,700 ration traders, 77 percent of the LPG and petrol pump staff applied about 45,234 vaccines, about 87 percent of nearly 38,201 fertilizer and seed stores. Likewise, other high-risk groups, including 68 percent of 18,188 journalists, and nearly 1.14 lakh fruit and non-vegetable sellers, as well as fruit and flower sellers across the state.
Source: Telangana Today