As a part of the nationwide exercise, the Department of Health and Family welfare Ganderbal today conducted a mock drive of COVID19 vaccination, here at District Hospital Ganderbal.
The dry mock drive was inaugurated by the Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Ganderbal, Farooq Ahmad Baba.
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Mehraj-u-Din, Medical Superintendent District Hospital, Dy. CHO Ganderbal and other concerned were present on the occasion.
The ADC, while speaking on the occasion, directed the concerned officers to work in a mission mode to ensure the successful conduct of the mock drive of the COVID-19 vaccination to avoid any inconvenience at the time when the vaccination drive starts in the district.
Earlier, speaking to The Kashmiriyat the Chief Medical Officer said that introduction of the Coronavirus vaccine will save the lives of people from the deadly COVID19 pandemic and this exercise is being done to avoid loopholes when the COVID-19 vaccine becomes available for use.
25 beneficiaries who were scheduled for vaccination on the Co-WIN App were vaccinated following all COVID- 19 SOP’s and were then kept under observation for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, the functioning of the Co-WIN App, on which all beneficiaries are going to be uploaded, was also demonstrated to the participants, according to their official press release.
A similar mock drive on COVID-19 vaccination was also conducted at SDH Kangan and PHC Lar.