PANAJI
Second dry run of Covid-19 vaccination for the State of Goa was successfully conducted by Directorate of Health Services on Friday morning and 182 dummy beneficiaries were vaccinated with their details being uploaded on the COWIN portal.
Planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of this dry run was done by cloud based IT solution in the form of COWIN portal application.
This dry run for Covid-19 vaccination was done at four different vaccination sites each, in both the districts of Goa.
In South Goa, PHC Chinchinim, PHC Quepem, UHC Margao and Victor hospital from underwent Dry-Run. In North Goa PHC Candolim, CHC Valpoi, NGDH Mapusa and Manipal hospital underwent this exercise of dry run for covid vaccination.
A total of 25 beneficiaries from each of the public health centres and a private hospital took part in the mock drill.
All the steps of the actual vaccination process were followed as per MoHFW guidelines except that beneficiaries weren’t administered the Covid-19 vaccine dosage.
Eight state-level officials from DHS supervised the drive in the field where as director DHS, CMO (FW), CMO (Immunization) monitored the program. The above mock drill was supported by vaccine cold chain managers from UNDP in both the districts.
Debriefing meeting was conducted at the Directorate of Health Services in the evening.
