Karachi
February 4, 2021
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, along with provincial health minister Dr Azra Pechuho, inaugurated the first Covid-19 vaccination campaign of the province at the Ojha Campus of the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) in Karachi on Wednesday.
The first coronavirus vaccine was administered to Dr Tanveer Ahmed, Dr Anila Sadaf Mengal and Dr Sadam Hussain. Health secretary Kazim Jatoi, Chinese Consul General Li Bijian, Project Director EPI Dr Akram Sultan, officials from the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), Vice Chancellor DUHS Prof Saeed Quraishy and others were also present on this occasion.
The inoculation of frontline healthcare workers also commenced at other vaccination centres of Karachi, including Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), where Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali encouraged health workers to come forward and get themselves immunised.