Image Source : PTI Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh addresses earlier than a tractor rally in Punjab.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, looking for free COVID-19 vaccination for the poor within the state. The chief minister acknowledged the receipt of two,04,500 doses of Covishield vaccine and likewise thanked the prime minister for making this vaccine accessible on precedence to healthcare employees (HCWs).
In an announcement right here, Singh requested Modi to contemplate offering free vaccine to the poor with a view to minimize the illness burden and likewise guaranteeing a examine on the additional unfold of transmission, thereby permitting extra financial exercise.
Referring to some experiences that aside from HCWs and frontline employees (FLWs), the remaining inhabitants will not be offered free vaccine, he identified in his letter, “the people of the state have gone through a very difficult times due to COVID-19 wherein economic activities have nosedived and the economy has still not recovered from this shock”.
“It would be difficult for the poorer sections of the society to pay for the vaccination,” he mentioned. He mentioned the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unparalleled catastrophe and heavy expenditure needed to be incurred within the state’s COVID-19 response.
His authorities had already requested the Centre that the collected balances with the state within the State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) could also be permitted for use as vital for COVID response, Singh wrote.
“The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) may kindly approve this to allow pending payments to be cleared,” he urged the prime minister.
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The chief minister mentioned in his letter that every one steps are in place to make sure vaccination of healthcare employees on precedence, with frontline employees to observe within the subsequent part.
The state has sufficient capability for storing in addition to transportation of the vaccine, he wrote, including that ample variety of vaccination websites had been recognized and all logistics tied up.
Adequate variety of vaccinators had been recognized, and skilled and ample variety of groups have been mobilised and skilled to handle the vaccination classes.
The chief minister will kickstart Punjab’s vaccination drive from Mohali with a complete of 59 vaccination websites to be purposeful within the first part.
Since a particular variety of vaccination doses have been acquired up to now for the healthcare employees whose particulars have been shared by the state authorities with the Centre, he himself will now take the vaccine within the subsequent part, the assertion mentioned.
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