the goan I network
MARGAO
There’s finally good news in store for parents awaiting immunization of their children.
The health centres have opened up immunization which was suspended in the wake of the 21-day lockdown due to the Covid-19
pandemic.
The Margao Urban Health Centre on Thursday saw a queue of parents with their little ones after the Centre resumed the immunization programme.
Around 100 children were immunized on Thursday and the Margao Urban Health Centre has fixed another round on Friday to clear the rush.
Margao UHC official Dr Anju Kharangate told The Goan that the last time immunization was taken up by the Centre before the lockdown was announced. “Since then, the Centre had been receiving inquiries from parents. We have resumed the immunization operations from Monday following instructions received from the Director of Health Services on Sunday,” Dr Kharangate said.
Dr Kharangate informed that it will take some time to clear the rush as the UHC has insisted on social distancing during the process and only called certain number of persons on a given day.
Meanwhile, she said the UHC teams will fan out to various parts of the municipal area to educate people, not only on the Covid-19 pandemic, but to ensure that households do not play host to breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
This is being done in view of the dengue epidemic that the commercial witnessed last year.
