Dry run of Covid vaccination at 3 places in Nagpur district on January 2

Nagpur: Dry run of Covid-19 vaccination programme will be conducted at three places in the district on January 2. It will be organized at one of the urban primary health centres (UPHCs) of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), Daga Hospital and Kamptee rural hospital.
Municipal commissioner Radhakrishnan B and deputy director (health services) Dr Sanjay Jaiswal confirmed that the state government has selected the district for the crucial dry run.
The ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) had directed all states to conduct dry run with an objective of gearing up for the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine.
Accordingly, state’s public health department has selected four districts — Nagpur, Pune, Jalna and Nandurbar.
Dr Jaiswal told TOI, “Basically, it will be a mock drill of vaccination programme. As part of the dry run, vaccine storage place will be finalized. Conveyance of vaccine from storage place to vaccination centre will also be done. The centre will comprise at least three rooms for waiting, administering vaccine and observation where beneficiary will have to stay for 30 minutes. Vaccine will not be administered in this dry run.”
For each of the three centres, 25 health care workers will be identified. They will be registered on Co-WIN application from where date and time of vaccination will be conveyed to the beneficiaries.
As per government’s guidelines, health care workers will be administered vaccine in phase-I followed by front-line workers in phase-II.
In city, over 21,000 health care workers have been registered for phase-I. The NMC has planned to set up 50 vaccination centres for phase-I.
Radhakrishnan has organized a meeting of NMC officials on Friday for selection of one UPHC and preparations for the dry run.
The NMC has already trained medical officers who will give further train vaccinators and other staff to be engaged in the programme.