Covid-19 vaccine dry run in Secunderabad Cantt soon

Secunderabad: As it was done in Hyderabad city, Secunderabad Cantonment too will hold a dry run for the administration of Covid-19 vaccine.
On Monday, a high-level meeting was convened at SCB main office in which officials of Secunderabad Cantonment Board’s (SCB) health wing, SCB elected ward members were attended and officials from the state medical & health wing and revenue department discussed about arrangements to be done in the Cantonment.
“The dry run will be conducted in phases. In the first phase, the medical and health staff and frontline warriors will be vaccinated. They include ANMs, PHC doctors, nurses and field staff. In the second phase, the police department will be vaccinated. The public will be administered the vaccine during the third phase,” Vijaykumar Balan Nair, the SCB deputy chief executive officer, told TOI.
There are five PHC circles in the Cantonment area, which include Bowenpally, Bollarum, Picket, Rasoolpura and Tirumalagiri. A detailed programme to identify venues—such as schools, colleges and PHC centres/Basthi Dawakhanas—to conduct the dry run is being planned and it will be started in three to four days, the SCB deputy CEO said.
“We have asked the SCB elected ward members to publicise the dry run and educate the general public about it, and tell them not to be scared about getting the vaccine,” Balan Nair said.
SCB vice president J Maheshwar Reddy said that government schools would be identified in respective wards’ jurisdictions to hold the dry run.
As many as 800 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the Secunderabad Cantonment since March 2020. Twelve people have died due to the virus.
The SCB (SWM) superintendent M Devender said that though there are 700 sanitary workers who are working in the Cantonment area, of which three contracted the virus.