JK Children-Vaccination
JK: Vaccine drive for providing second dose to children
Rajouri/IBNS: The Health Department on Tuesday started the vaccination drive to administer the second dose to children between the age group of 15-18 years.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Rajouri Dr Anees Altaf Nabi told that amid the ongoing vaccination drive for all the eligible beneficiaries that includes people above 18 years of age and booster dose to frontline workers and comorbid person above 60 years, we have also started vaccination drive for second dose to all the eligible children.
92 percent eligible children have been administered with their first dose of vaccine and efforts were on to vaccinate all the remaining children.
A drive for giving second dose of vaccine to the children had started in which all the children who had received first dose of vaccine would be given second dose on completion of specific time period after the first dose, he added.
Dr Nabi said that special vaccination sites were established across the district and on Tuesday 398 children were given their second vaccine.
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