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Covid vaccine dry run conducted under WHO watch
The Haryana health department on Thursday conducted a Covid-19 vaccine roll out dry run across 22 districts in which 3,300 beneficiaries were included as the exercise
The Haryana health department on Thursday conducted a Covid-19 vaccine roll out dry run across 22 districts in which 3,300 beneficiaries were included as the exercise was also watched by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The dry run was closely monitored and at one of the sites in rural area in Gurugram, WHO country head (India) Dr Roderico H Ofrin was present.
Additional chief secretary (health) Rajeev Arora said that Dr Ofrin and health officials had visited one rural session site (PHC Bangrola), where they appreciated the efforts put in by health officers in preparedness and implementation of dry run.
Dr Ofrin also appreciated the quality capacity building and trainings of health care workers for the dry run.
Listing out steps taken by the department to ensure flawless dry run of the Covid-19 vaccine, Arora said that activities including identification of session sites with PIN code tagging, identification of adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) management sites and verification of beneficiaries at session site, registering vaccination digitally on vaccinator module, session site management (with test beneficiaries were conducted on Thursday.
The dry run is being conducted as part of preparations for successful roll out of the massive vaccination campaign and to identify any bottlenecks or glitches in operational and technical aspects of implementation.
Similar dry runs were conducted at Karnal, Kurukshetra and Panipat as 25 health workers at each centre were given the jabs.
As per officials from the Karnal district health department, 150 health workers participated in the exercise and three vaccination centres, comprising three rooms - a waiting room, an observation room and a vaccination room.
After verification, the vaccine was administered and if people showed any adverse reaction, they were shifted to the observation room .
Karnal deputy commissioner Nishant Kumar Yadav said that the dry run was conducted successfully at all six locations - three each from urban and rural areas. The DC said that around 10,700 health workers will be vaccinated in the first phase in district.
