Vaccination drive launched in Goa

PANAJI: The Covid-19 vaccination drive kick-started at seven hospitals in Goa on Saturday after PM Narendra Modi’s address to the nation.
Each centre will vaccinate 100 healthcare workers, starting with sanitation workers, and then doctors and nurses. Goa has received 23,500 doses of Covid vaccines.
Goa Medical College has been one of the main sites and launched the drive by vaccinating a sanitary worker Ranganath Bhojii as appealed by the PM.
The health official said that it would take an average of five minutes to vaccinate every beneficiary, and they intend to finish the vaccination by 5pm, but will continue beyond that if they are not able to complete vaccinating all 100 beneficiaries on the list by the scheduled time.
Besides GMC, the other centres at which vaccination is under way are the North Goa district hospital, Mapusa, Hospicio, Margao, sub-district hospital, Ponda, sub-district hospital Chicalim, Manipal hospital, Dona Paula and Healthway hospital, Old Goa.