home to the world’s largest vaccine makers and has one of the biggest immunization programs. But there is no playbook for the enormity of the current challenge.
Indian's authorities hope to give shots to 300 laks people, roughly the population of the U.S and several times more than its existing program, which targets 26 million infants. The recipients include 30 million doctors, nurses and other staff front-line workers, to be followe by 270 million people who are either over 50 or have illnesses that make them vulnerable to COVID
workers who have pulled India’s battered health system through the coronavirus pandemic, vaccinations offered confidence that life can start returne to normal. Many burst with pride.I am happy to get an India-made vaccine and that we do not have to depend on others for it,” said Gita Devi, a nurse who was one of the first to get a shot. Devi has treated patients throughout the pandemic in a hospital in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh state in India’s heartland.
The first dose was administered to a sanitation worker All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in the capital, New Delhi, after PM kick-started the campaign with a nationally televised speech.
We are launching the world largest vaccination and it shows the world our capability,” PM said. He implored citizens to keep their guard up and not to believe any “rumors about the safety of vaccines.
t was not clear whether prime minister, 70, had received the vaccine himself as other world leaders have in an effort to demonstrate the shot’s safety. His government has said politicians will not be considered a priority in the first phase of the roll out.
Health officials have not specified what percentage of India’s nearly 1.4 billion people will targeted by campaign. But experts say it almost certainly be the largest such drive globally.
The sheer scale has its obstacles and some early snags were identified. For instance, there were delays in uploading the details of health care workers receiving the shots to a digital platform that India is using to track vaccines Shots were given to at least 165,718 people on Saturday, Dr. Manohar Agnani, a Health Ministry , said at an evening briefing. The ministry had said that it was aiming to inoculate 100 people in each of the 3,008 vaccination centers all over the country.
News oersons captured the injections in hundreds of hospital, underscoring the hope that getting people vaccinated is the first step to recovering from the pandemic that devastated the lives of so many Indians and bruised the country’s economy. India is second only to the U.S. in the number of confirmed cases, with more than 10.5 million. The country ranks third in the number of deaths, behind the U.S. and Brazil,
on Jan 4 approved emergency use of two vaccines, one developed by Oxford University and U.K.-based and another by Indian company Bharat Biotech. Cargo planes flew 16.5 million shots to different Indian cities last week.
But doubts over the effectiveness of the homegrown vaccine have created a hurdle for the ambitious plan. Health experts worry that the government’s approval of the Bharat Biotech vaccine — without concrete data showing its efficacy — could amplify vaccine hesitancy. At least one state health minister has opposed its use.
the government taking decisions that might not be in the best interest of the common man,” said Dr. S.P. Kalanithi, the director of a hospital in Maharashtr, India’s worst it state. Kalanithi said the regulatory approval was hasty and not backed by science.
New Delhi, doctors at Ram Manohar Lochia Hospital, one of the largest in the city, demanded they be administered the vaccine instead of the one developed by Bharat Biotech. A doctors union at the hospital said many of its members were a bit apprehensive about the lack of complete trial or the native vaccine.
Right now, we donnot have hoption to choose between the vaccines,” said Dr. Nirmalaya Mohapatra, vice president of the hospital’s Resident Doctors Association.
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