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Puducherry to conduct 4-day vaccination festival from today
Vaccination would be done in government hospitals, primary health centres also at designated centres in all the four regions of Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam.
The Puducherry government will be conducting a four-day vaccination festival from Wednesday to combat the spread of Covid-19 in the union territory. Health secretary T Arun said in a release that his department is conducting the festival along with other departments at more than 100 centres in the union territory.
Arun said that a special camp was held in Karuvadikuppam on Tuesday to vaccinate differently-abled persons and their parents or care-takers. Nearly 150 people were vaccinated at the camp, he added.
The official further said that the government would also soon deploy health staff to inoculate differently-abled people at their homes.
Vaccination would be done in government hospitals, primary health centres also at designated centres in all the four regions of Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam.
Arun said the joint efforts by the health department in association with other departments, political leaders, leaders of public opinion, voluntary organisations, self- help groups and other stakeholders had been initiated to hold the vaccination festival.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had first taken the initiative of organising the 'Tika Utsav' (vaccination festival) to speed up the nationwide vaccination drive against Covid-19.
The four-day-long 'Tika Utsav' started on April 11 and ended on April 14.
PM Modi called it the beginning of the second big war against the Covid-19 pandemic and urged for maximum inoculations among eligible age groups. “We have to move towards optimum utilisation of the country’s vaccination capacity. This is a way to augment our capacity,” he said.
According to health experts and the government, vaccinating as many people as possible is one of the effective ways to counter the spread of Covid-19.
