12-day drive against coronavirus today

As many as 297,427 residents of the Rawalpindi district would be immunised against the coronavirus during a 12-day-long 4th phase of the reach every door (RED) drive that commences in the Rawalpindi district on Monday.

District Health Authority Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Lubna Ishaq said that 2,200 staff members of the health authority including 450 skilled persons, 450 social mobilisers, 450 data entry operators, 450 vaccine carriers, 210 medical officers and 210 union councils in charge would participate in achieving the 100 per cent target of the 'RED' corona vaccination campaign. She said that the drive would be carried out in 210 Union Councils of the district.

Meanwhile, District Surveillance Officer Dr Waqar Ahmed said that 108,390 would jab themselves with the first dose of Covid-19 while the target of the 2nd dose was 189,037 of the total 297,427 inoculations. He said the vaccine was mandatory for those above 12 years of age and safe for pregnant and other disease-affected people.

Dr Waqar said all possible steps had been taken by the offices concerned to make the campaign successful. A sufficient quantity of vaccines was available, and no stone will be left unturned in our effort to make the campaign successful. The health officer urged the residents to get vaccinated at the earliest who had not still jabbed against the deadly disease, adding the vaccination was the only way to defeat coronavirus.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 20^th, 2022.