Telangana is expecting a consignment of one crore doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in the current month. Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar said that the government has so far given the first dose of the vaccine to 2.02 crore people and three to four lakh people are being given the vaccine daily.
He said that the state has covered 2.8 crore people through the special vaccination drive.
The Chief Secretary inaugurated the Mega Immunization Center set up in collaboration with Care India at Khajaguda Sports Complex on Tuesday morning. It is one of the six established by the central government to cover the entire population in a time bound manner. It will function from 7 am to 11 pm and will have special counters for women and the elderly. Adequate doses of Covaxin and Covishield are centrally located.
Mr. Somesh Kumar said that arrangements have been made to provide shelter to the attendants of patients in all major hospitals from Dussehra. Steps were also taken to meet the food requirements of the attendants. Efforts were intensified to build four multi super specialty hospitals around the city and the designs of these hospitals were being prepared.
In addition, the State Government had taken steps to improve the infrastructure to develop NIMS into a hospital of international standards.
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