Amravati: District Programme Officer Ajay Sakhare and medical officer Ujjwala Mohod became the first beneficiaries as the Covid vaccination drive got off to an enthusiastic start in the district on Saturday morning.
Total 500 healthcare workers were administered the vaccine at two centres in the city and three in the district today. Each centre had registered a hundred health care workers for vaccination. The centres were District General Hospital and PDMC in the city, Sub District Hospital at Achalpur, Rural Hospital at Teosa and Primary Health Center at Anjangaon.Bari.
Today s 500 beneficiaries will be given the second dose 28 days later, civil surgeon Dr Shyamsundar Nikam said. In the first phase, 16,262 health care workers will be vaccinated, he added.