Victoria hospital attendant gets first vaccine jab in K’taka

Bengaluru, Jan 16 : Minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched the nationwide vaccination drive on Saturday, Karnataka rolled out its first phase of the drive at 243 sites across the state.
K. Nagaratna (28), a ward attendant at Victoria hospital, received the first vaccine shot in the presence of Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi and Health Minister K. Sudhakar among others at the Bangalore Medical College.
“The vaccine doses to be administered at all the 243 centres have been capped at 100 in a day, which means about 24,300 health warriors will be vaccinated on the first day of the vaccine roll out,” Sudhakar said.
The Group ‘D’ workers who had played a crucial role in battling the Covid-19 pandemic across the state were given the first shots.
Nagaratna, who hails from a village near Bidadi, was greeted with a bouquet of roses by Yediyurappa after she got the first vaccine jab in the state.
“We have all the wherewithal and capacity to administer vaccines to any number of people but at present we are only restricted to 100 which will be increased gradually in the coming days,” the Chief Minister said.