Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 27: Choudhary Mohammed Yasin (IAS) Mission Director, National Health Mission & Chief Executive Officer, State Health Agency J&K today chaired a training-cum-orientation session of administrators of all private hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana regarding COVID vaccination of Age-Appropriate Groups. The the meeting was attended by Director Health Services, Jammu, Director Health Services Kashmir, Deputy Chief Executive Officer State Health Agency, J&K, Chief Medical Officers of all districts, Officers from National Health Mission, J&K, officers from the directorate of family welfare and immunization and administrators of all private hospitals empanelled under AB PM-JAY attended the meeting through Video Conference. Choudhary Mohammed Yasin (IAS) Mission Director, National Health Mission & Chief Executive Officer, State Health Agency apprised the participants about the role of private hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana as COVID Vaccination Centers. He informed the participants that the nationwide COVID-19 Vaccination drive which was launched on 16th January 2021 is now to be exponentially expanded to the following age-groups from 1st March, 2021: i) all citizens above 60 years of age, and ii) those within the age the bracket of 45 to 59 years with specified co-morbidities He urged upon all the empanelled hospitals to come forward and play their role in eliminating the dreaded disease. State Immunization Officer, Dr. Haroon explained the process of Empanelment of Private Hospitals as COVID Vaccination Centres, Process of Advance Self Registration, On-Site Registration and Facilitated Cohort Registration of potential beneficiaries. Rashmi from eVin explained to the participants about the basic features of version 2.0 of the digital platform COWin, which is a population-scale software with capacity of processing several thousands of entries. |
