Mass Vaccination drive in Hyderabad

Hyderabad, June 06 (H.S).The Mega vaccination drive was held today  from 8 am to 9 pm at Hitex, Madhapur, Hyderabad.

This is the biggest vaccine drive ever organised on a single day anywhere in the world said  Dr G.Srinivas Rao, Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, Govt of Telangana who was the Chief Guest at the Mega Vaccine Drive organised jointly by Cyberabad Police, SCSC(The Society for Cyberabad Security Council) and Medicover.

Kickstarting the Vaccination Drive Dr G. Srinivas Rao who is spearheading Covid Care in the state stated that Covid will be under control and we get back to the pre-second wave situation in just a few days. But, a word of caution, the protective gear that all of you have been following for some time must also continue and there shouldn’t be any laxity. Covid also behaves in proportion to our behaviour. So better be careful he told

If we have reached this position not just because of Health Care Professionals but also the police for maintaining strict lockdown. I haven’t ever seen the health care department working so closely with the police, the Senior official of the Director of Public Health and Family Welfare said.

We have inoculated 52 lakh people in the Telangana state so far. Our target is to vaccinate the 2.75 crore population of the state. That means we need 5.5 crore jabs.  We have over 1000 Vaccination centres across the state. In the coming days, we will be able to vaccinate ten lakh people in a single day. If the private sector also joins we will be able to vaccinate 12 to 13 lakh people every day. With 2.75 crores to be vaccinated, we will be able to vaccinate the entire state in just 30 days ,he added.

Vaccines will be beneficial in 3 ways. One once you are fully vaccinated you are protected 90%, two even if you contract the virus after fully vaccinating it will be mild and hospitalisation may not be required. The third benefit is after your full vaccination you are a safe person to deal with. You will not spread the virus. That is why we appeal to all to go and get vaccinated. Once we vaccinate 70 per cent of the population we can witness herd immunity, he said.

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That is not right. Irrespective of cases, people must go and get vaccinated at the earliest possible time. He described the mega drive as the first of its kind in the world,  we must vaccinate people faster than the spread of the vaccine to fight it out, he said. He appreciated the efforts of Medicover Management led by Dr.Anilkrishna,Dr.Sharath & its CEO Harikrishna & entire team in organizing this event.

He also lauded Krishna Yeddula Secretary Cyberabad Security Council for co-ordinating the event. He also appreciated SCSC Volunteers for their active role in making this event a grand success. He also requested the public to vaccinate to fight the present wave & also the future waves.

Krishna Yedula, Secretary-General of SCSC said that they took the help of technology to manage such a large number of people in the least possible time. It was a paperless, touchless, cashless and contactless vaccination drive. People could get jabbed in just 5  without waiting in long queues. It was possible because of pre-registration, pre-online payment. All they had to do was to scan the QR code and proceed for the jab.

Hari Krishna, Executive Director, Medicover Group of Hospitals India said this idea of mass vaccination was in our minds long before the vaccines were made available. Today by the time of the formal inauguration of the drive we have vaccinated 11000 people of 18 years and above. By morning we had 36,000 registrations and by end of the day, we will surpass 40,000 vaccinations.

To manage this we have booked 3 halls at Hitex. One hall is exclusively reserved for senior citizens. People availed of Covaxin some their second dose and many their first dose. We had 300 vaccination stations in all the three halls put together. We have pressed into the service of 700 nurses. We arranged a 5-bed emergency facility in case of any exisgencies.. We have kept 10 ambulances ready to transport any emergency patients to the hospitals. 300 admin staff of Medicover and 150 volunteers from SCSC facilities the smooth management of vaccinating the biggest number of people on the globe in a single day in a single venue.