1.14 lakh Covishield vaccines for Nagpur division arrive The boxes containing Covishield vaccines arrived in city. Principal Correspondent : Uninterrupted power supply at vaccination centres The much-awaited 114000 Covishield vaccine doses meant for healthworkers working in private and Government hospitals of Nagpur region reached Nagpur city in the wee hours of Thursday. These vaccines came from Serum Institute Pune. The administration has sent them to six districts of the division early in the morning itself by vehicles fitted with cold storages. The vaccination drive will begin on January 16. This will be the first dose of the vaccine to be given to the healthworkers who have registered themselves for COVID-19 vaccination to be conducted at 34 centres. State Public Health Department has asked its regional heads to form a special team that would monitor the vaccination programme. All the districts have already conducted dry run as a part of preparedness for vaccination. The department is planning to do vaccination of 100 healthworkers at a centre everyday. Elaborating the number of vaccines to be given to each district Dr Sanjay Jaiswal told The Hitavada “We have sent the vaccines to all six districts of Nagpur division. The districts include Bhandara (9500 vaccines) Chandrapur (20000) Gadchiroli (12000) Gondia (10000) Nagpur (42000) Wardha (20500). The vaccination drives are to be conducted for which the districts have marked those many number of centres. Bhandara (3 centres) Chandrapur (6) Gadchiroli (4) Nagpur (12) Wardha (5)”. In Nagpur district the city part has 5 designated centres where the vaccination drive will be conducted while the rural part of the district has 7 centres ready to administer vaccines. The five centres in city include All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Nagpur; Daga Hospital Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) Indira Gandhi Government Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) Mahal Diagnostic Centre. In rural the centres will be Sub-District Hospital at Ramtek Kamptee Rural Hospital at Umred Hingna Saoner Katol and Gondkhairi Primary Health Centre. In Chandrapur the vaccination will be held at Government Medical College Sub-District Hospital Warora and Rajura; Rural Hospital Brahmapuri; Civil Hospital Ramnagar and Pathanpura. In Gondia it will be conducted at Government Medical College Sub-District Hospital Tiroda Rural Hospital Deori. The vaccination drive in Wardha will be held at Medical College Sewagram; Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rural Hospital attached to Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College affiliated to Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences Sawangi (Meghe); District Hospital Wardha; Sub-District Hospital Hinganghat and Arvi; Rural Hospital Selu. In Bhandara the designated three centres include District Hospital Sub-District Hospital Tumsar and Rural Hospital Lakhni. There are 93309 healthworkers have registered themselves for the vaccination who will be given the dose on priority. In Nagpur district 34333 healthworkers registered themselves that include citys 25164 and 9169 in rural. The other districts have 16754 (Wardha) 7602 (Bhandara) 16110 (Chandrapur) 9947 (Gadchiroli) 8563 (Gondia). Uninterrupted power supply at vaccination centres In the wake of COVID-19 vaccination drive the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Corporation Limited (MSEDCL) has decided to maintain uninterrupted power supply at all the Vaccination Centres. The vaccines are to be kept in the cold storage where the temperature of +2 and +8 degrees Celcius is to be maintained. For maintaining the cold temperature the power supply need to continue uninterrupted. Acting on the instructions by District Collectorate the Chief Engineer of Nagpur region of MSEDCL Dilip Dodke has asked his officials to take necessary steps so that there should not be power outages. Dodke has reviewed the situation after discussing with Narayan Amzare Superintendent Engineer Dr Suresh Wankhede Amit Paranjape. There will be uninterrupted power supply at all the vaccination centres from Friday.

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