The First phase of Covid vaccine driver for Children kick off in Himachal; 40,000 students to have first dose of Covid vaccine in Shimla district
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur today launched the State wide covid-19 vaccination campaign for 15-18. As many as 4259 educational institutions would be covered under this campaign which includes 2801 government, 1402 private and 56 other educational institutions. He said that the State Government was keeping an eye on the new variant Delta and Omicron and all preventative measures would be taken to check spread of this virus.
The first phase of special vaccination drive to student between ninth to 12 Standard who have attained the age of 15 to 18yrs getting first dose of Covid vaccine kick off from today onward in all the 12 district of Himachal Pradesh would continue till Jan 15.
Chief Medical Office of Shimla district Dr Surekha Chopra said that 40,000 students are targeted to have vaccine and four staff members of schools and hospitals would be deployed in the each schools which were made vaccination centers.
She said that there are as many as 3,57,450 students who falls under this category and Enrolled in private and government schools in the state . The Senior Secondary and High Schools are made vaccination center to vaccinate more than Four lakh children for first dose of vaccine. 2nd dose of vaccination would be provided after 28 days to the students.
State hospitals already received 2.80 lakh doses of Covid vaccine from the center. Vaccine dose were already received by the district CMOs from the NRHM directorate. State health officials confirmed that if there would be shortage of vaccine center has assured more dose of Covid vaccination to the special drive. Beside this beneficiaries could register them off on the site to have the vaccine.
She said that two staff members of Hospital would carry safety kits along with them and 108 ambulances would be deployed in case of adverse impact of vaccination on the students. The health department to begin an immunity drive deployed more than 400 staff members.
The students would have the prescribed dose and vaccination would be voluntary. He said that Currently schools are in winter vacation and they could not predict the expected vaccination. CMO said that information received from 21 blocks of district Shimla there are total 49330 students who are registered in Private and State Government educational institutions between 9 the to 12 standard. As 33,442 students are enrolled in State owned schools and 15888 in private schools.
In the district as many as 6983 students are enrolled in 9 th standard of Government schools and 5213 in Pvt Schools, 7143 and 5124 in 10th class, 10519 and 2844 in 11th, and 8797 and 2707 in 12 th class respectively.
In Shimla subdivision 5277 children are eligible for the 1st dose in Schools, 2563 in Rampur 2364 in Nerwa, 2124 in Rohru, 1992 and 1960 in Sunni and Theog block And 1921 Mashorba block. In rest of the block number of students varies from 422(DodraKawar) to 1500 (Chopal).She said that in all the 21 block one each program officers were deployed who would start the first phase of vaccination in more than 400 schools in the district.
