Countrywide Covid-19 vaccination begins
The Covid-19 vaccination programme commenced on Sunday morning in the united states with a target to inoculate 3.5 million persons in the first phase.
Overall health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurated the vaccination campaign through video tutorial conferencing from medical directorate each morning.
Some 2,400 teams will work in 1,005 hospitals under the vaccination program, DGHS said.
A complete of 204 teams are facilitating the vaccination in 50 hospitals in the administrative centre and 2,196 teams are undertaking the work in 955 hospitals outside Dhaka.
Some 7,344 vaccination teams are operating the vaccination programme across the country.
Based on the DGHS, around 3.5 lakh persons registered for vaccine till Saturday evening.
Individuals who registered for vaccine received texts Saturday night confirming the time and centre for his or her vaccination.
Health and wellbeing Minister Zahid Maleque will receive the vaccine on Sunday at Sheikh Russel National Gastroliver Institute and Hospital vaccination center in Dhaka.
Residence Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Khan along with his wife may also get vaccinated at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital found in the capital on Sunday, DGHS options said.
The front-liners will receive the vaccine in the first phase while people under 18 and pregnant mothers will not be given the vaccine.
The vaccine seekers can also register physically browsing the vaccine centres in the united states, the DGHS sources said.
Medical and family welfare ministry said the federal government has made a decision to inoculate 3.5 million people in the first month of the vaccination program.
The country now includes a stock of 7 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca (Covishield) vaccine, of which the government procured 5 million doses from Serum Institute of India and the others were gifted by the Indian government.
Two doses of the Covishield vaccine will be given to each vaccine recipient within an eight-week interval.
At least 100 people will be vaccinated daily from each individual vaccine centre across the country, the DGHS sources said.
Each of the vaccination crew is made up of two vaccinators and four volunteers while the vaccinators include nurses, sub-assistant network medical officers and relatives welfare inspectors.
The DGHS in addition has asked never to grant keep to health personnel until February 10 in a bid to guarantee the smooth rollout of Covid-19 vaccine in the united states.
The vaccine centres will carry out the vaccination from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm every day except Friday.
Primary Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the vaccination program virtually when 26 front liners received Covishield vaccine found in Kurmitola General Medical center on January 27. And 541 others received the vaccine in five hospitals in the administrative centre on the next day.
A complete of 567 persons who received their initial doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca (Covishield) vaccine were under observation for seven days.
The Directorate Standard of Health Services (DGHS) sources plus some vaccine recipients said no key side-effect of the vaccine has been found yet among the vaccine recipients.
Bangladesh plans to inoculate 80 per cent of its population and the Covid-19 shots will be administered on five stages under 3 phases, in line with the countrywide vaccine distribution and preparation strategy.
Source: www.daily-sun.com
