Mega vaccination drive: Gurugram to give 30,000 shots at 209 session sites

GURUGRAM: The city is all set to conduct its mega vaccination drive on Monday, in which it plans to administer 30,000 doses of the vaccine across 209 session sites. To achieve the target, Gurugram on Sunday received 20,000 more doses of Covishield. The city now has 50,000 doses of the vaccine for the drive.
The session sites include 19 private hospitals and 190 government facilities. Recipients will be allowed to walk in at the government sites without pre-registration, while appointments will be compulsory at the private facilities.
The health department has divided the district into urban and rural clusters for this drive. There will be 75 rural sites and 115 urban sites in government facilities.
A special camp will be set up for people working at the Chandralok area in Sadar Bazar and a site will be set up for auto drivers at Rajeev Chowk. Both sites will have 200 slots each.
Also, special camps will be set up near Khandsa mandi.
The health department is also targeting daily wage labourers, for whom three dedicated sites will be set up at Sector 5, Labour chowk in Khandsa and one in Sohna. Also, five drive-ins vaccination sites have been planned for the day.
“We have already given fixed timings for shopkeepers to get their shots at Chandralok session site. We are focusing on these groups as they might end up being super-spreaders of Covid,” said Dr Virender Yadav, chief medical officer, Gurgaon.
Over 7,000 vaccinated
On Sunday, a total of 6,386 people in the 18-44 age group got inoculated in the city. In the 45-plus category, 969 people took the shots. There were no session sites on Sunday at government facilities.
In Gurgaon, as per the data by the health department, private hospitals carried out 69% of all vaccinations between June 1 and June 20. A total of 2,39,170 people were vaccinated in the city in that period. In private session sites, a total of people 1,66,508 got inoculated while the figure stood at 72,662 (30%) in government facilities.
Going by the numbers, the private hospitals have administered 8,325 doses on average daily in the past 20 days, while the government facilities have given 3,633 doses on average every day.
In May, Gurgaon carried out 2,16,415 inoculations. The private hospitals in the city had administered 56,108 (26%) doses in that month, while 1,60,307 (74%) doses were administered at government facilities.