Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, July 13

The special drive to inoculate specially-abled persons on the doorstep has gained momentum in the district with 949 more such beneficiaries receiving vaccine jabs at their homes here on Tuesday.

Deputy Commissioner Ghanshyam Thori said the district administration had started the drive a few days ago with a view to reaching the homes of specially-abled persons and inoculate them against Covid-19. All the SMOs were working earnestly to ensure that every such beneficiary was jabbed on the doorstep, he said.

The DC said all five SDMs were personally monitoring the drive in their respective jurisdictions so that this mammoth exercise could continue.

Sharing the efforts being made by health teams, Senior Medical Officer, Jamsher health block, RP Bains said the teams comprising ASHA and ANM workers and vaccinators were not only administering the doses to specially-abled persons but also creating awareness among rural population of the benefits of early vaccination. “Our teams are visiting door to door to inoculate PwDs as directed by the DC. So far, 339 beneficiaries have been jabbed at their homes,” he added.

Similarly, SMO, Adampur block, Dr Reema stated, “We have covered almost 95 per cent of the PwD beneficiaries in our health block and only those were not vaccinated who expressed their unwillingness to get the dose.” She said as many as 340 such beneficiaries, including 50, had been covered so far on Tuesday.

Pointing out further, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Urban Development) Himanshu Jain stated that the health teams were making all-out efforts to ensure 100 per cent vaccination of the specially-abled beneficiaries by visiting their homes. He said the drive would continue until the goal of maximum vaccination was achieved. He said 339, 340, 30, 160, 20, 20, and 40 beneficiaries had been inoculated in Jamsher, Adampur, Shahkot, Lohian Bara Pind, Shankar, Nakodar, and Jalandhar Urban health blocks, respectively, to date.