PM Narendra Modi
VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the frontline Corona warriors getting vaccinated and the vaccinators during the second leg of Covid-19 vaccination on Friday. The interaction will be held through video conferencing for which arrangements have been made at three vaccination centres in Varanasi.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma told TOI on Thursday, “An interaction of the Prime Minister with beneficiaries and vaccinators is proposed to be held during the vaccination drive tomorrow. The PM will start interacting with beneficiaries in Varanasi via video conferencing from 1.15pm. The participants will share their experience of vaccination.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PTI)
VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the frontline corona warriors who are getting vaccinated and the vaccinators during the second leg of Covid-19 vaccination on Friday.
The interaction will be held through video conferencing for which arrangements have been made at three vaccination centres in Varanasi.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma told TOI on Thursday, “An interaction of the Prime Minister with beneficiaries and vaccinators is proposed to be held during the vaccination drive tomorrow. The PM will start interacting with beneficiaries in Varanasi via video conferencing from 1.15pm. The participants will share their experience of vaccination.”
Varanasi: The vaccine shots for Covid-19 would be administered to 600 frontline warriors in the city on the inaugural day after the launch of CoWin ap.
Man with the vaccine boxes on bicycle and dry run being conducted
VARANASI: A major lapse was exposed during the dry run of Covid-19 vaccination in Varanasi on Tuesday when an employee reached Government Women Hospital, one of the six designated centres, carrying vaccine boxes on a bicycle.
Taking serious note of the incident, chief medical officer Dr V B Singh sought an explanation from the cold chain handler for the lapse even though arrangements of vaccine storage had already been made at GWH.
The dry run of Covid-19 vaccination at GWH had not begun when a man reached there with four cold-chain boxes on a bicycle, but the security personnel stopped him from entering the hospital.
VARANASI: District health officials swung into action on Tuesday after visuals went viral on social media showing ‘vaccine’ reaching an inoculation centre on bicycle during the statewide dry run.
Chief medical officer Dr V B Singh has sought an explanation from the cold chain operator for the ‘lapse’ as the centre in question Government Women Hospital, Chaukaghat was not scheduled for the supply of vaccines as it already had adequate doses in storage.
Just before the start of the dry run at GWH, a man reached there with four cold-chain boxes on a bicycle, but the security personnel stopped him from entering the hospital. When he revealed that he had brought dummy vaccine boxes from Chaukaghat CHC, the designated storage centre for Covid vaccine with three ice lined refrigerators (ILR), the health officials swung into action.