{"id":155966,"date":"2021-04-11T01:54:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T20:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=155966"},"modified":"2021-04-11T01:54:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T20:24:56","slug":"health-dept-racing-to-vaccinate-people-in-vulnerable-age-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/04\/11\/health-dept-racing-to-vaccinate-people-in-vulnerable-age-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Health dept racing to vaccinate people in vulnerable age groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 10 Apr:<\/strong> With the second wave of Covid-19 sweeping across the country, the state&#8217;s health department is racing against time to vaccinate all people in the vulnerable age groups in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government&#8217;s Covid-19 &#8216;vaccination utsav&#8217; will begin on Sunday at different locations in the Itanagar capital region, including TRIHMS, the RK Mission Hospital, the Itafort health centre, the Chimpu PHC, Karsingsa, etc.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, with active Covid-19 cases increasing daily, there is report that the number of RT-PCR tests being carried out in the state is decreasing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources claimed that the number of RT-PCR tests has gone down significantly due to the exorbitant price for the test. The department charges Rs 1,000 for a test, which, according to a source, is unaffordable for the common people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When contacted by this daily, Health Secretary P Parthiban on Saturday said the department is continuing with the RT-PCR tests. &#8220;We are still doing it. We do approximately 50 samples a day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On being asked about the price for the test, Parthiban said that the price of RT-PCR tests will be reviewed soon and decreased in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The secretary had on 3 April said that there was a public demand to reduce the RT-PCR and TrueNat tests, and that the department had also proposed the same to the state government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had said that the government would announce the new reduced rates. However, so far no revised rates for RT-PCR and TrueNat tests have been announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parthiban added that the state government has initiated steps to check a possible second wave of infection in the state by equipping Covid-19 staffers and making sure that there are enough oxygen cylinders available at the hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 10 Apr: With the second wave of Covid-19 sweeping across the country, the state&#8217;s health department is racing against time to vaccinate all people in the vulnerable age groups in the state. The government&#8217;s Covid-19 &#8216;vaccination utsav&#8217; will begin on Sunday at different locations in the Itanagar capital region, including TRIHMS, the [&hellip;]<\/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-155966","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\/155966","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=155966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}