NEW DELHI: With vaccination of teenagers in the 15-18 years age group set to begin from Monday, district authorities, hospitals and healthcare facilities, and schools that have been designated as vaccination centres are geared up for the exercise.
Apart from private hospitals and other private healthcare facilities, a total of 159 government vaccination centres have been designated for the vaccination of the 15-18 years age group. The estimated number of beneficiaries is around 10 lakh.
Most of the government vaccination centres (61) have been set up in schools, mostly those that are run by Delhi government, apart from those run by municipal bodies. Centres have also been set up at three colleges, including Shyam Lal College and Vivekananda College in east Delhi. Designated centres would also function from 20 hospitals including AIIMS, Safdarjung, Hindu Rao, Maulana Azad Medical College, Lady Hardinge, Ram Manohar Lohia and Swami Dayanand Hospital.
To ensure that all eligible teens are vaccinated as soon as possible, the Delhi government’s Directorate of Education issued a circular directing heads of schools to play an important role in the exercise, apart from guidelines for schools that have been designated as centres.
Each school has been asked to identify a nodal in-charge to coordinate the activity, apart from directing that class teachers of relevant classes and sections must ensure that parents are informed to take their children to nearest vaccination sites.
The circular informs the schools that have been identified as centres for vaccination of teens that parents may accompany the children to the school, which should provide facilities like a separate room, staff for queue management and a verifier.
While prior registration should ideally be done on the CoWIN portal, all eligible beneficiaries can also walk-in for registration to any nearby designated vaccination centre with their ID proof, and get vaccinated.
There are also plans to set up temporary camps at schools for vaccination of its students of this age group, for which a mobile vaccination team can be deployed by district authorities, the circular states. While the vans would be deployed for sufficient days, depending on the number of students to be vaccinated, the circular says that the beneficiaries can be informed and mobilised to school on designated days.
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