Assam: Dr Milan Kumar Laskar from Bokakhat Gets the 1st COVID-19 Vaccine
The target of the first phase is to vaccinate 1,90,000 health care workers in Assam and 1,00,000 frontline workers in the second phase of the drive.
| 16 Jan 2021 8:41 AM GMT
Bokakhat: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the COVID-19 vaccination drive across the country, in Assam Dr Milan Kumar Laskar was the first doctor to receive the vaccine shot in Bokakhat.
The doctor has been vaccinated at Swahid Kamala Miri Subdivision Civil Hospital at Bokakhat. Meanwhile, 406 frontline workers will be vaccinated in the first phase at Bokakhat subdivision.
It is to be mentioned that the vaccination drive in Assam was inaugurated by Assam Chief Minister at the Assam Medical College(AMC), Dibrugarh while Assam Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma inaugurated the drive at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital(GMCH), Guwahati.
A medic administers Covid-19 vaccine to a frontline worker in Guwahati. (PTI)
GUWAHATI: Shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Covid-19 vaccination drive at around 10.30am on Saturday, there was a burst of loud applause inside the small vaccination session site at a sub-divisional civil hospital at Bokakhat in Assam’s Golaghat district as its medical and health officer Dr Milan Kumar Laskar received the first shot of the vaccine in Assam.
Amid the applause from nurses and state government officials, sub-divisional officer Bipul Das then felicitated Dr Laskar with the Assamese traditional gamocha to mark the beginning of a new dawn.