Covid vaccination dry run at 263 places in K’taka on Friday

Bengaluru, Jan 7 : Karnataka will conduct a Covid-19 vaccination dry run at 263 different places on Friday. This is part of the national programme to train and equip healthcare professionals to carry out the immunisation process whenever the vaccine is rolled out, Health Minister K. Sudhakar said on Thursday.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday chaired a meeting via video conference with the health ministers of states and union territories, a day before the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination dry run.
After attending the meeting, Sudhakar said: “Vaccination should be a public movement with public participation. A detailed discussion was carried out with the central government regarding the preparation and distribution of Covid vaccine.” He added that earlier the dry run was planned at three locations in each district of the state, but now it will be conducted at seven locations in each district.
“This dry run will be held at 24 district hospitals, 20 medical colleges, 43 taluk hospitals, 31 community health centres, 87 primary health centres, 30 urban primary healthcare facilities and 28 private health centres across the state,” Sudhakar said.
The Minister informed that the Centre has supplied 24 lakh syringes and Karnataka has 10 walk-in coolers, four walk-in freezers, 3,201 Ice Line Refrigerators (ILRs) 3,039 deep freezers, 3,312 cold boxes, 46,591 vaccine carriers and 2,25,749 ice packs.