Health Ministry has flagged concerns regarding the considerably slow pace of Covid-19 vaccination drive across states and union territories, and urged them to significantly expedite the pace towards full vaccination coverage by saturating all eligible beneficiaries.
This was communicated to all States and UTs by Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan as he reviewed the status of Covid vaccination with Health Secretaries and NHM MDs of States and UTs, through a video conference today.
Highlighting the urgent need for an intensive 'Mission Mode' push to Covid-19 vaccination across the country to accelerate the recent placid momentum, Union Health Secretary has advised them to plan for a two-month long "Har GharDastak" campaign 2.0, during June-July, with detailed district, block and village levels plans.
The objective of the 'Har GharDastak 2.0' Abhiyan is to vaccinate and saturate the eligible population groups for first, second and precaution doses through door-to-door campaigns, with focussed campaigns for old age homes, schools or colleges including the out-of-school children (for focussed coverage of children aged 12-18 years population), prisons, brick kilns, etc, according to the ministry.