Madhya Pradesh

• 26 Aug 2021

Maximum Vaccinations in Country

Why in News

• On the first day of Mega Vaccination Drive of Phase-2, which will be run in all districts in Madhya Pradesh from August 25 to 26, 2021, the state became the first state in the country to do maximum vaccination in a day by administering vaccine doses to 23 lakh 86 a thousand persons.

Key Points

• During the Vaccination Maha-Abhiyan-1 in Madhya Pradesh that was organized on June 21, 2021, more than 18 lakh vaccine doses were given.
• Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the Vaccination Maha-Abhiyan-2 at the center set up at the Jain Temple at Jawahar Chowk, Bhopal.
• On the first day of Vaccination Maha-Abhiyan-2, a target was set to vaccinate 21 lakh 30 thousand people. To achieve the target, more than 8 thousand immunization centers were set up in 52 districts of the state. Madhya Pradesh set its own record by achieving about 10 percent more than the set target.
• In the Vaccination Maha-Abhiyan, suitable arrangements have been made at all the centers to vaccinate the target group. Along with this, arrangements were also made by the local administration for transporting vehicles to and from the center, especially for the elderly and the differently-abled.
• Members of the district, block and village and ward level Crisis Management Committees formed in the state to prevent the third wave of corona infection also played an active role in Maha-Abhiyan-2 The members of the committee, while doing public awareness work in urban and rural areas, also discharged the role of motivator at the vaccination centers.
• On the first day of Maha-Abhiyan-2, a maximum number of vaccines were administered in Shivpuri district in the state. Mandsaur in second place and Seoni in third place.