Special Covid-19 vaccination campaign for transgender people in Ctg on Nov 22
Transgender people in the port city will receive Covid-19 vaccine doses, in a special campaign, at Chattogram Civil Surgeon's Office on Monday.
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines will be administered to them, according to Chattogram Civil Surgeon Dr Elias Chowdhury.
He told The Daily Star, "We have received a list of 550 transgender people who will receive Covid-19 vaccine."
"They don't have to show their NID cards; instead, we'd record their names, addresses, and age," he said.
When asked why the Covid-19 vaccine was not given to transgender people sooner, he said that many of them, who had NID cards, had already received the vaccine, but the special programme is for those who do not have NID cards.
"We have received instructions from the government to organise a special programme for transgender people in Chattogram so that no one is left out of vaccination," the civil surgeon added.
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