RANCHI: Acting on the directions of the Union health ministry to hold month-long door-to-door vaccination programme, the state health department is going to launch “Har Ghar Dastak Tikakkaran Abhiyan” from Monday.
The month long door to door vaccination programme is aimed at identifying and inoculating beneficiaries with the first dose as well as to those whose second dose is overdue.
An order in this regard was issued by the managing director, state health mission, on Monday directing all civil surgeons of state to start the drive from immediate effect from Tuesday.
Talking to TOI, nodal officer in-charge for vaccination in state, Dr Deepavali, said “We have instructed all civil surgeons to start door-to-door vaccination from Tuesday on priority. All districts have been provided with required vaccine doses and asked to ensure that they reach those beneficiaries.”
Towards the end of October, Jharkhand had 12 lakh beneficiaries who haven’t taken their second dose of vaccine. Asked whether the state has enough doses available with them for the door-to-door campaign, Dr Deepavali said, “We have over 18 lakh doses currently and all the districts have also been provided with enough stock. Apart from that we are also set to receive around 74 lakh vaccine doses within next week.”
The door-to-door vaccination programme was conceptualised after a review meeting was organised by Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya along with health ministers of the states and UTs on October 27. It was unanimously decided to vaccinate all eligible adult population with the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine and cover all eligible beneficiaries with their second dosage at the earliest.
