JAISALMER: Looking at the villagers’ indifference in Jaisalmer and Barmer towards second dose for Covid, the administration in both the districts is carrying out ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ vaccination campaign.
In villages located on the Indo-Pak border, the campaign is being carried out on camels and tractors. Irrespective of the tough geographical and severe cold conditions, the health personnel are vaccinating the public. There are border areas in Barmer and villages that come in the Desert National Park region with no roads. Here the health officials use camels.
Auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) Mukesh, deployed in Sundara said that camels are used for
Covid vaccination
, immunisation of children and even while administering pulse polio drops. The last village on the border is in the prohibited area of Desert National Park which lacks basic facilities. Mukesh said that she was deployed at the sub-centre for the last 20 months and there is no facility to reside here. People are less educated in this area, as such she sometimes finds it difficult to inform the locals about vaccination and other schemes. The people here do not understand the importance of vaccine against Covid.
Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya shared a photo of a health worker on a camel to administer vaccine on his Twitter handle.
Jaisalmer faces the same problem. Looking at this, district collector Ashish Modi directed the health officials to
vaccinate people
deprived of first and the second doses.
The chief district education officer also directed panchayat elementary education officers of all senior secondary schools to make people aware about the necessity to vaccinate against Covid.
CMHO Dr Kunal Sahu said that special campaigns will be held for vaccination. He said that till now 85% of the population in Jaisalmer has been administered the first dose whereas 62% of the population has been administered the second dose.
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