DGHS not liable for various statements being made about vaccination: Khurshid
A lot of different statements about the Covid-19 vaccination have come from various places. But neither the health ministry nor the health directorate is responsible for all of those statements, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Director General Professor Abul Bashar Mohammad Khurshid Alam said today.
"You have seen various comments coming from different places. Various issues have come up. We are aware of those things. We will try so that these things do not happen again," he said at a press conference on the "Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign" at the Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS) in the capital.
"As Covid-19 infection has increased in the country, the government has decided to conduct a nationwide mass vaccination campaign from tomorrow," the DGHS DG said.
"Through 32,706 vaccinators and 48,459 volunteers, the vaccination program will be carried out simultaneously in 4,600 unions, 1,054 municipalities and 433 wards in city corporation areas across the country," Khurshid said.
When questioned why the age limit for vaccine was changed from 18 to 25 again he said "Many 18-year-olds do not have NID. As we have reviewed, without NIDs, we will not be able to handle the chaos that will be created in the field if we try to bring 18-year-olds under the vaccination program. After much discussion, we have decided that the age limit will be 25."
"...The number of vaccination people received before Eid was low. In the last 10 days after the health minister announced the campaign, we have seen that about 3 million people have been vaccinated," DG Khurshid said.
"We thought if we can't campaign in a massive way, then how can we cover so many people since we have to vaccinate 80 percent of the population? This can be called a pilot project. We want to test our capabilities. We want to see how many vaccines we can give to people at the grassroots level," the DG added.
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