The event presented by St. Xavier’s College (Calcutta) Alumni Association (SXCCAA) in association with The Telegraph was hosted at the St. Xavier’s College auditorium earlier this month
St Xavier’s College, Calcutta, will conduct a Covid-19 vaccination camp in collaboration with the state government on its Park Street campus.
It will also set up a safe home for Covid patients on its Raghabpur campus in South 24-Parganas.
Senior officers of the district administration and state health department have already done a preliminary inspection at Raghabpur.
On the Park Street campus, the vaccination will start with the college staff, teaching and non-teaching staff, alumni and then include others when the capacity increases, a college official said.
The date and the eligibility criterion will be fixed based on the allotment of the vaccines and the number of doses, he added.
The St Xavier’s College Alumni Association, in collaboration with the college, has opened a Covid help desk on the campus to help families who have tested positive, especially those from economically weaker sections.
The volunteers managing the help desk will arrange oxygen concentrators, oxygen cylinders, pulse oximeters, PPE kits, hand sanitisers and other essential commodities and provide the items to those unable to procure them.
The help desk number that became operational on Wednesday is 7439955182.
Father Dominic Savio, the principal of the college and the president of the alumni association, said: “We cannot remain quiet in this difficult situation and will have to engage ourselves in extending these services, as the main principle of our (Jesuit) education system is to act as men and women for others and this is the time to prove it.”