Joining the rest of the country, a dry run for COVID-19 vaccination was carried out in District hospital Dimapur, CHC Medziphema and Urban PHC Duncan Bosti Dimapur on January 2.
According to DPRO, session sites were set up as per guidelines by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, consisting of 3 rooms i.e. waiting, vaccination and observation rooms, with each vaccination team consisting of five members including vaccinator officer and vaccination officers for verification, mobilising for vaccination, for portal uploading and for observation.
During the dry run, 25 beneficiaries were selected in each session site for conducting proposed activity.
The dry run was supervised by officials from State and District level comprising of Mission Director NHM, deputy commissioner Dimapur, State Immunization officer, other administrative officers, CMO team and officials from medical and other departments.
Debriefing of the activity held was done in CMO Dimapur office at district level headed by the Mission Director NHM.
The objective of the dry run for COVID 19 vaccination was to assess operational feasibility in the use of Co-WIN application in field environment and also for assessing the preparedness for vaccination drive as and when available.
It added that as and when vaccine was rolled out, first phase will cover health care workers, second phase will cover the frontline workers, while the third phase will cover several population above 50 years of age and persons with co- morbidities including children.