Home vaccination for above 80s begins

The Rawalpindi administration has started the facility of vaccination at home for citizens aged 80 and above. The measure has been taken to protect the elderly citizens from a much-contagious and deadly variant of coronavirus, District Health Authority (DHA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Faiza Kanwal told The Express Tribune on Monday.

She said coronavirus vaccination centres have been established at Shahbaz Sharif Sports Complex, Red Crescent Centre, and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU). Senior citizens are vaccinated at the designated places and they are kept under observation for at least half an hour after which they are allowed to leave, she added.

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The CEO said that doctors and related medical staff are deployed at all vaccination centres. She stated that the facility established in Potohar Town has been shifted to FJWU where some 250 people were being vaccinated daily. Kanwal informed that the registration of people under 60 for inoculation has also been started. She added that DHA would start administering anti-Covid jabs as soon the government enforces a new policy.

Meanwhile, Rawalpindi Commissioner Gulzar Hussain Shah has directed the authorities to ensure implementation of all standard operating procedures (SOPs) at Ramazan sasta bazaars as per guidelines issued by the Punjab government. During a visit to a bazaar set up at Double Road, he said the promise of providing relief to the citizens through sasta bazaars made by the government would be fulfilled. He checked the prices of commodities of daily use items including the quality, weight and stock and warned that no compromise would be made on the quality of subsidised items.