Delhi: North, South civic bodies gear-up for mass Covid inoculation drive

New Delhi, Jan 7 : More than 100 health care workers of North Delhi Municipal Corporation (North MCD) and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) participated in a dry-run for the Covid vaccine rollout which was carried out at seven sites including two corporation-run hospitals on Wednesday.
The corporations said that mock drill for the Covid inoculation was conducted successfully as all the aspects concerning the immunization were found running smoothly.
The dry-run at North MCD took place at Bara Hindu Rao Hospital and Kasturba Hospital where around sixty health care workers participated. While it was conducted at five Maternity Mother and Child Welfare (MCW) Centres from Hari Nagar, Bijawasan, Sriniwas Puri, Fatehpur Beri and Munirka under the SDMC. Total 45 health care workers participated there.
Leader of House (SDMC), Narendra Chawla, said that teams of senior doctors from the corporation conducted the dry run successfully at the MCW centres following the guidelines issued by the Central government.
“All the procedures related to vaccination were adopted in a manner in which vaccination will be done in coming days,” he commented.
Chawla informed that the vaccination capacity of each centre in SDMC is 100 as per the prescribed guidelines.