Health ministry dissatisfied with vaccination pace

ISLAMABAD:

The Ministry of National Health Services has expressed dissatisfaction over the pace of vaccination of the frontline health workers against the coronavirus in Islamabad.

In a letter to the capital’s public and private hospitals, the ministry said the vaccination pace is slow as less than half of the total registered health workers have been inoculated against the virus as yet.

It lamented that the vaccination pace didn’t pick up despite its directives in this regard. A total of 8,000 health workers have been registered for the Covid-19 vaccination in the first phase, but a mere 3,200 have been administered jabs, even though vaccination counters remain operational throughout the week in Islamabad, it said.

The ministry stressed that the vaccination of health workers is the need of the hour, advising medics and paramedical staff working at the health facilities of the capital to get jabs on a priority basis.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 24^th, 2021.