{"id":144786,"date":"2020-12-09T00:39:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=144786"},"modified":"2020-12-09T00:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:09:43","slug":"meetings-on-covid-19-vaccination-preparedness-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/12\/09\/meetings-on-covid-19-vaccination-preparedness-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetings on Covid-19 vaccination preparedness held"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOMDILA, 8 Dec:<\/strong> West Kameng DC Karma Leki in a meeting here on Tuesday reviewed the district’s preparedness to administer Covid-19 vaccine when it is available.<\/p>\n

Leki advised the district’s medical department to ensure that all the CHCs and PHCs are equipped with ice-lined refrigerators, deep freezers, cold boxes, vaccine carriers, power backup facilities, etc, that are required for storage and distribution of Covid-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n

The vaccination drive in the district will be carried out in four blocks, covering 11 health facilities\/centres, including private healthcare facilities, by 42 doctors and 108 nurses.<\/p>\n

In the first phase, only the frontline healthcare workers will be immunized, and a total of 1,316 beneficiaries have been identified, informed West Kameng DRCHO Dr TD Namsa.<\/p>\n

Dr Namsa highlighted the Covid-19 vaccination process and the current status of all the CHCs, PHCs and the general hospital here to carry out the vaccination drive.<\/p>\n

He also presented a brief on antenatal care and routine immunization coverage till November this year, which are 87 percent and 81 percent, respectively, of the annual set target.<\/p>\n

The DC urged the medical officers, nurses, ASHAs and anganwadi workers to achieve the routine immunization target by December, as set by the government.<\/p>\n

Doctors from CHCs and PHCs, the SP, the ICDS deputy director and others also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n

In Tirap district, DC Taro Mize urged all the health officers, health workers and line departments to ensure registration of all the beneficiaries for Covid-19 vaccination.<\/p>\n

The DC also urged the district task force on immunization and block task forces on immunization to conduct review meetings on Covid-19 vaccination programme from time to time.<\/p>\n

DRCHO Dr Nidak Angu made a PowerPoint presentation on the “Covid-19 vaccine preparatory activities.”<\/p>\n

Dr Angu informed that Covid-19 vaccine is being introduced soon. However, he said, “the time of launching, vaccine brand, and dose are yet to be communicated by GoI.”<\/p>\n

WCD DD Hacham Bangsia, DHK Dr Khogen Socia and DPM Lomhat Lowang also spoke.<\/p>\n

In Lower Subansiri district, DC Swetika Sachan called for coordination between the line departments, civil society organizations and NGOs to ensure safe delivery of the vaccines to the beneficiaries.<\/p>\n

Sachan emphasized on planning and monitoring the entire process. “All the key activities, such as micro-planning, communication planning, cold chain and vaccine logistics planning, have to be regularly monitored,” she said.<\/p>\n

She also directed DRCHO (in-charge) Dr Radhe Anku to ensure that the beneficiaries’ list is updated in the Co-WIN software before the deadline of 10 December.<\/p>\n

Dr Radhe Anku spoke about the cold chain preparedness, details of session sites and the vaccinators.<\/p>\n

Vaccine cold chain manager for Lower Subansiri, Tage Hailyang also spoke.<\/p>\n

Among others, DMO Dr Tage Kano, SP Harsh Indora, and medical officials attended the meeting. (DIPROs)<\/p>\n

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BOMDILA, 8 Dec: West Kameng DC Karma Leki in a meeting here on Tuesday reviewed the district’s preparedness to administer Covid-19 vaccine when it is available. Leki advised the district’s medical department to ensure that all the CHCs and PHCs are equipped with ice-lined refrigerators, deep freezers, cold boxes, vaccine carriers, power backup facilities, etc, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}