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Noida/Ghaziabad: On the first day of tika utsav, 6,189 people were inoculated in Gautam Budh Nagar that had a target of 18,500 for the day. Of the 6,189 recipients, 4,997 were in the 45-59 years age group and the rest were above 60. In all, 71 centres carried out the drive, including 49 government facilities. Although 40 private hospitals were expected to take part in the drive, only 22 facilities gave jabs on Sunday and 2,550 people took the jabs there.
Noida/Ghaziabad: On the first day of tika utsav, 6,189 people were inoculated in Gautam Budh Nagar that had a target of 18,500 for the day. Of the 6,189 recipients, 4,997 were in the 45-59 years age group and the rest were above 60. In all, 71 centres carried out the drive, including 49 government facilities. Although 40 private hospitals were expected to take part in the drive, only 22 facilities gave jabs on Sunday and 2,550 people took the jabs there.
Ghaziabad, with a target of 18,000 fared better and 8,112 people were vaccinated on Sunday across 89 centres (68 were government facilities). Of the 39 private hospitals that were supposed to inoculate people, 18 did not administer the vaccine. In all, 791 people were inoculated in private hospitals and 7,321 people got the jabs at 68 government centres. Most of the recipients (8,068) were in the 45-59 years category.
Gautam Budh Nagar district magistrate Suhas LY inaugurated the tika utsav from the community health centre at Bhangel on Sunday morning. “All those eligible should get the vaccine,” he said.
Dr Neeraj Tyagi, district immunisation officer in-charge of Covid vaccination, Gautam Budh Nagar, said: “We held tika utsav at 71 centres. Many private hospitals will be vaccinating people from Monday.” According to sources, vaccines reached Ghaziabad around 6.30 am on Sunday and by 9 am, the stock was distributed among the government centres.
In Gautam Budh Nagar, the district health department officials said there was no shortage of vaccines. “Adequate supplies were given to all private hospitals. But many facilities do not operate on Sundays. We expect better response from Monday,” said Dr Tyagi, adding that 80,000 doses of Covishield had come in on Saturday evening.
Officials said 200 doses of Covishield were given to Prakash Hospital and 500 doses of the vaccine were given to Child PGI, that inoculated 200 people on Sunday. In Noida, MLA Pankaj Singh urged residents to take part in the tika utsav. “The mass vaccination programme will be conducted from April 11 to 14 and I urge everyone eligible to get themselves vaccinated,” he said.
According to the target set by the state government for the tika utsav, Noida was expected to vaccinate 18,500 people on Sunday and 35,000 on each day after that. In Ghaziabad, Union minister VK Singh visited the District Combined Hospital and District Women’s Hospital around 1 pm to review the arrangements.
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