Jammu and Kashmir is prepared for vaccination: Admin

Speaking to the media here, Dulloo said: “We have made all arrangements for vaccination in J&K. We have identified vaccination sites and our vaccinators are well trained.”

Dulloo was speaking following a dry run at Government Hospital in Sarwal. In Jammu district, the mock-drill was conducted in Bishnah, Marh, and Sarwal for covid-19 vaccination.

“The vaccination will be conducted in four phases i.e., health care workers, front-line workers, people having above 50 years of age, and in the fourth phase, the rest of the people will be vaccinated.”

“We have also sent the additional requirements to the Government of India. However, we are ready to start vaccination,” he added.

Dry run is a training exercise in which logistics, inventories and software are tested. Dulloo himself supervised the dry run at Government Hospital, Sarwal.

The objective of the dry run was to assess the operational feasibility to Covid-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) application in a field environment to test the linkages between planning and its implementation.

A senior health official told the Greater Kashmir that in Marh CHC the officials faced problems in running the app (software) on mobile phones due to internet problems. Later, it was run on a laptop with broadband connection.

Entire exercise was monitored by the Government of India.