LUCKNOW: The
Uttar Pradesh government has planned to cover around 1.4 lakh health workers in the second round of the Covid-19 vaccination drive, scheduled on Friday.
In the inaugural session on January 16, over 22,000 health workers were inoculated against a target of 31,700.
Principal secretary, health and family welfare, Alok Kumar, said around 1,400 booth sessions will be held.
“UP needs to vaccinate 9.06 lakh health workers, including those from the private sector. Around 22,000 were covered in the inaugural session and Friday’s vaccination target is 1.4 lakh,” he said.
Those who missed the shot on the first day on January 16 can get themselves inoculated on Friday. From next week, the covid-19 vaccination sessions would be held on Thursday and Friday.
The second batch of 9.11 lakh doses of vaccine has been received after 10.75 lakh doses in the first round.
“UP has enough doses to inoculate health workers,” said Kumar.
Of the 9 lakh health workers listed in UP, over 2.34 lakh are from the private sector while others belong to the government sector.
“The list includes 1.5 lakh aanganwadi centres, 1.5 lakh ASHAs, 40,000 ANMS, all staff under provincial medical and health services and medical colleges,” said an officer executing the vaccine drive.
The process will be monitored by Unicef and WHO for smooth implementation and experts will oversee and record adverse events, including technical glitches.
Earlier, health officials had said vaccination against Covid-19 will take place every Thursday and Friday. They revealed the target was to cover 50% health workers by the sessions on January 28 and 29.