Second Dry Run of corona vaccine completed : Mock drill of more than 2500 front warriors at 102 centers in all the districts

Jaipur, January 8. The second dry run (mock drill) of corona vaccination was successfully organized on Friday in the State. Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma said that a mock drill of COVID-19 vaccination of 2550 health personnel was done by setting up 102 vaccine centres in all the districts. Information was given about the possible common adverse effects that could happen to the beneficiaries after COVID-19 vaccination and about the necessary COVID protocol. 

Dr Sharma said that this was the second dry run of corona vaccination and prior to this a mock drill was conducted for a total of 424 corona warriors by organizing a dry run in the State at 18 centers in 7 districts on January 2. He said that during both of these dry runs, vaccination management was done taking all precautions and by following the scientific protocol. 

He said that a mock drill of vaccination was conducted by making three categories of vaccine centres in each district. A total of 102 vaccine centers were made in Medical Colleges and District Hospitals in the first category; CHCs, PHCs and Urban Dispensaries in the second category and the private medical institutions in the third category. A target of a total 25 vaccinations was fixed at each vaccination center. 

Health Secretary Shri Siddharth Mahajan inspected the dry run activities by going to the vaccine centres in Jaipur and in all the districts, joint director medical, CMHO, RCHO and other district officers under the leadership of district collector monitored the COVID-19 vaccination activities and gave necessary directions. 

This is how Dry Run was practiced 

Dr Sharma said that first of all, a model of vaccination room and monitoring room was made for the beneficiary and rehearsal of administering the vaccine was done. Meanwhile, the vaccination officer verified the identity documents and then gave entry to the beneficiary. The beneficiary was sent to the vaccination room after certifying on COVID-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (COVIN) software, where the vaccinate officer completed the vaccination process (demo) and made entry on COVIN software about administering vaccine to the beneficiary. He said that the beneficiary was kept at the monitoring room for 30 minutes under the observation of the vaccination officer. During the process of dry run, time taken to vaccinate a beneficiary and in making entry on COVIN software was assessed and the process of running the software was checked.