KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will finally reach out to the elderly and the infirm citizens with the vaccination-at-home offer. In a bid to bring city’s elderly and ailing population under the vaccination net in the wake of a surge in cases, the KMC health department will reach out to those who will apply for such a jab at home as they can’t move out of their houses.
A senior citizen, who is suffering from some kind of serious illness and can’t visit a KMC run vaccination clinic, needs to apply to mayor Firhad Hakim on his WhatsApp number (9830037493). A KMC team will reach the applicant’s place in the evening. The vaccine, however, will be administered in presence of a registered medical practitioner, said Hakim on Monday. The civic body, Hakim said, was putting stress on vaccination of the elderly as well as younger people.
Besides keeping its 37 Covaxin clinics open for students aged between 15-18, the KMC health department will open some of its mega centres for them. “The students should be brought under the vaccination drive in the wake of a surge in Covid positive cases. We will appeal to all school students to take the opportunity and get vaccinated either at our clinics or at specially set up camps in the schools,” Hakim said.
Hakim also expressed satisfaction over a sharp dip in Covid cases in Kolkata. “Today we have recorded 1,723 cases across the city. But we should continue to follow Covid protocols,” he said. According to sources, the civic body has reduced city’s containment zones from 44 to 33.
