Chennai, Nov 2 (BPNS)
The Tamil Nadu health department has constituted medical teams to visit villages in the state to inoculate people who have yet to take a jab against Covid -19 pandemic.
The team will commence visiting villages from Tuesday onwards.
A team comprising of a doctor, nurse, and other staff will travel to villages and vaccinate those who are yet to take the vaccine. The district medical officers will monitor the team that will be traveling to the villages.
The state health department in a statement on Tuesday said that there are 80,000 villages in the state and that all these villages would be covered by the medical teams that would be based out of district headquarters. The health department in its study has found that after the opening of offices and factories, there was a slow down in the number of vaccinations on weekdays.
Kavitha Balamurugan, a doctor with a medical team from Chengalpattu while speaking to BPNS said, “I am part of the medical team that will be touring villages in Chengalpattu district and I feel that this novel initiative will lead to vaccinating almost the whole of the population. I am eagerly looking forward to traveling to villages for inoculation.”
The health department will associate with the state education department and will depute students to create awareness among their parents regarding the necessity of vaccination against Covid -19. According to a study conducted by the state health department, after in certain pockets of Tamil Nadu, lethargy has crept in regarding vaccination and the new initiative is to rope in almost everyone to be vaccinated against Covid -19.
State health minister Ma Subramanian while speaking to BPNS said, “This is a new initiative of the state health department and our team will cover all the 80,000 villages of Tamil Nadu to inoculate people who are left out of the vaccine drive. We don’t want any lethargy in this and the state government is monitoring the situation closely. The efforts of the doctors, nurses, and other staff of the state health department are laudable to bring the number of Covid -19 fresh cases in the state under 1000 and we don’t want to lose this advantage by slowing down the vaccine drive. Hence this initiative.”
