Pocharam ward 1st in Telangana to achieve 100% vaccination with both doses

HYDERABAD: The 12th ward in Pocharam, consisting of 2,080 apartments of Sanskruthi township, became the first in Telangana to achieve 100% Covid-19 vaccination with both doses.
The ward has administered both doses to 4,000 people and was awarded a certificate of appreciation by the Pocharam municipality recently.
Confirming the same, municipal commissioner A Suresh said, “Till yesterday, nobody had declared 100% vaccination in the entire state, we have checked the records.They started vaccinating healthcare staff and frontline workers in January this year and completed the vaccination in the last week. It was declared as 100% vaccinated.”
The ward, which is adjacent to IT campuses of Infosys and Genpact, largely houses IT employees and senior citizens, many of whom stay alone.
“Of the 10,000-plus population, nearly 6,000 IT employees of Infosys are in their hometowns since the pandemic struck. The remaining 4,000 adult population largely consists of senior citizens. Many of them are elderly women staying alone. Since this area mostly has a population of educated people, convincing them was not a problem but logistics had to be arranged. As soon as vaccines were made available at the nearest primary health centre at Narapally in March, we began taking the people to the primary health centre for vaccination,”said B Hariprasad Rao, 12th ward councillor, Pocharam municipality.
“We also took some people to AIIMS Bibinagar and later to the Annojiguda community hall centre. In the last 10 days, the remaining 520 people were vaccinated in the community hall itself,” he added.