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Old, infirm , disabled and differently abled to be home-vaccinated
Subdivision wise ambulances/mobile teams to be deployed
Home vaccination facility also to be extended to women subject to availability of a group of at least ten women beneficiaries at a location
SAS Nagar, June 21 2021
In one of its kind initiatives, SAS Nagar District Administration is to commence home-vaccination for the old, infirm , disabled persons and differently abled persons making it the first district in the country to start need based door-to-door vaccination.
Subdivision wise ambulances with vaccination teams are being deployed for taking the jabs to the doorsteps, informed Deputy Commissioner Girish Dayalan.
To avail home vaccination the facility, registration has to be done by filling the details of persons to be inoculated and their addresses in a google-sheet. But, it is mandatory that at a given point of time there are at least a group of ten people in the area who are to be vaccinated against COVID19, informed Dayalan. The pre-condition of minimum ten people has been set to avoid vaccine wastage since per vial 10 doses of vaccine are available and once open it cannot be preserved for later use, said DC.
Similarly, Home vaccination facility is also being extended to women and can be done for a group ten beneficiaries, if all are women.
Though our top priority is elderly and disabled but for the ease of people, if a Residents Welfare Association(RWA) seeks home-vaccination but does not have sufficient number of senior citizens, it will be provided the service on the condition that at least half of the total number of people to be vaccinated are aged(60 plus) , disabled or differently abled and the remaining can be anyone over 18 years of age.
Door- to –door/ home vaccination facility is also being extended to organizations, associations, NGOs , RWAs or volunteers willing to facilitate vaccination if they want to vaccinate over thirty persons at a given point of time in a given place, even if they are not aged or infirm. So, the minimum persons to be available at one site for Home Vaccination is thirty.
The number of people to be vaccinated, locality and the contact person’s number has to be filled for registration and the team vaccination team will reach in their vicinity within 24 to 48 hours and will wait for 30 minutes after vaccination to observe adverse event following immunization (AEFI), if any. Each recipient needs to fill his name, DoB, ID type/number in a Performa at the time of vaccination so they should keep the relevant data handy in order to save time, said Dayalan.
