Health dept faced with an uphill task of administering 20 Lakh doses in 20 days
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
With less than 20 days remaining to achieve the 100 per cent vaccination target, more than 20 lakh doses of the vaccine are needed to be administered. To accomplish the target the state health department is needed to administer 1.07 lakh doses per day. In the last 10 days the state health department has administered 5,42,461 doses.
The data released by Social Development for Communities (SDC) foundation shows that the pace of vaccination has slowed down. It should be mentioned here that a total of 5,82,461 doses were administered from December 2 to 11. In the preceding 10 days period (November 22 to December 1) a total of 5,67270 doses were administered.
The data shows that a total of 76,67,630 people have been administered the first dose while 56,48,294 have received both shots of the vaccine till December 11. It means that a total of 1,33,15,924 vaccine doses have been administered so far. As per the data of state health department a total of 77,29,466 people are needed to be vaccinated in the state which means that the department has a target of 1,54,58,932 vaccine shots.
The Founder of SDC foundation, Anoop Nautiyal said that it would be a matter of concern if the vaccination target is not achieved. He said that due to the decrease in the number of Covid 19 cases people are under the wrong impression that now nothing will happen to them and are not getting the second dose administered. Nautiyal suggested that the government should think about making the vaccination compulsory for all.
