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ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰਨਾ, ਇਹ ਖਬਰ ਤੁਹਾਡੀ ਬੇਨਤੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਉਪਲਬਧ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ। ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਇੱਥੇ ਦੇਖੋ।
Haryana Health Department all set to introduce COVID-19 vaccine soon
Chandigarh, December 22– The Haryana Health Department has completed the groundwork and is all set to introduce COVID-19 vaccine soon in a phased manner starting from Health Care Workers (HCWs). For this, the data of more than 1.9 lakh Health Care Workers (HCWs) from both private and government sectors have been uploaded on CoWIN portal.
Sharing details of the preparedness of COVID-19 vaccine rollout Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Rajeev Arora said that the Department has already identified 1,800 vaccination session sites and more than 5,000 vaccinators have been mapped for the process of administering the vaccine. Moreover, to ensure the vaccine reaches every district the health department has 22 Vaccine Vans (insulated) for transporting vaccine across the state.
Sharing more information in this regard, Arora said that the Haryana Government has meticulously prepared the vaccine rollout plan and is all set to introduce it. He said that the Department is preparing for introduction of COVID-19 vaccine and will expeditiously roll it out when available. He stated that the platform of existing Universal Immunization program of state with enhanced capacity is being used for COVID-19 vaccine.
Divulging more details he said that the COVID-19 vaccine introduction will span over a year with multiple groups being included sequentially starting from Health Care Workers (HCWs). Moreover, the vaccination will be done at fixed session sites, mapping of session sites are in progress, he added. “As per the Government of India (GOI) guidelines vaccination will be done on Election Model with the involvement of other departments,” said Arora.
On the availability of cold storages he said that the State has sufficient cold chain space to meet out additional requirement for COVID-19 vaccine. Furthermore, the category wise vaccination is to be done in a phased manner. Arora said that prior experiences of managing huge campaigns like Measles-Rubella (MR) have been an asset and help the Department in formulating practical plans. Besides this, all districts have been instructed to create additional dry space for storing logistics and majority of districts have already created extra space for the same, he added.
Revealing details of the infrastructure for storage, transportation and maintaining vaccine and logistics supply chain Arora said that one State vaccine Store has been identified in Kurukshetra, four regional vaccine stores have been identified in Hisar, Gurugram, Kurukshetra, Rohtak, 22 District Vaccine Stores and 659 Cold Chain points have been identified.
