Cowin portal for vaccination no longer open for registering names of healthcare workers
Posted on: 04/Feb/2021 9:36:57 AM
The state of TN vaccinated as many as 10476 people yesterday and this is now grabbing the attention of many. Truth is that since 16th January (date on which vaccination drive began) this was the highest number in the vaccination drive.
It has been announced by the public health officials that they would not offer vaccines to the people whose names were not included in the centralized Cowin portal. Information gathered is that the portal is no longer open for registering names of the healthcare workers. The names of the front line works could be uploaded till 7th of February.
It is now very clear that if the clinical establishments have not handed over the names of all their staff to the local health authorities then they no longer be in the priority list. The procedure that has been followed till now healthcare workers who were not in the list were also provided vaccination and later on their names were added to the Cowin portal.
It was mentioned by Dr. K. Vinay Kumar, joint director, immunization that the above procedure would not be followed hereafter. He hinted about the last ditch attempts that are made now to collect the names of the doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, other hospital workers etc for requesting the Centre regarding addition of the names. Point is that TN had enlisted 5.62 lakhs healthcare providers as against an estimate of 6 lakhs till Wednesday.
It is learnt that now TN is sourcing names of the employees in home, local administration and revenue department in TN. Dr .Vinay Kumar later highlighted that a day before the schedule all the beneficiaries would receive a message on the venue and time for vaccination. He concluded that if the people walk into the centres even before getting the messages on their mobile phones they would still be given vaccination as long as their names were on the portal.
The recipient tally in TN moved to 130943 on Wednesday and of these 2213 people were frontline workers who began taking vaccine shots from Tuesday. Now, 55 more vaccination centres have been added by the public health department to increase the attendance. Currently, the total number of vaccination centres in TN stands at 400.Truth is that TN could have vaccinated as many as 46500 people on Wednesday. Information is that by 630 pm 10,313 took Covishield and 163 persons took Covaxin.
It has been brought to light that the hesitancy towards indigenous vaccines seemed to be higher. This was as per some vaccination officers at 6 centres where Covaxin was offered. As many as 2945 persons have opted for Covaxin out of the total 1.3 lakhs recipients. The state of TN has the capacity to vaccinate more than 1lakh is known.
