Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 16 (ANI): Karnataka Health and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Saturday termed the moment when the first jab of the COVID-19 vaccine was administered to a frontline worker in the state as historic.
lakh doses of Covishield taken to
storage facility
vaccine arrived in the city on Tuesday. The consignment of Covishield vaccine manufactured by the
Serum Institute of India arrived from Pune in a
SpiceJet aircraft.
The aircraft carrying 54 boxes of the vaccine, consisting of approximately 6.48 lakh doses arrived at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) at 11.45 am.
The vaccines were offloaded from the aircraft and then brought to the Menzies Aviation Bobba (Bangalore) Pvt. Ltd and then loaded on to a truck which transported it to the government storage facility near Anand Rao circle.
From the state and regional vaccination stores, the vaccines will be further distributed to district, taluk and booth level centres by road with mobile walk-in freezers.
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 13 (ANI): Karnataka is set to receive a total of 20,000 doses of Covaxin, which will be arriving in the state soon, said State Health and Family Welfare and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar on Wednesday.
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Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar checking on young boy s vision as Dr K Bhujang Shetty, CMD of Narayana Nethralaya looks on, during inauguration of National programme on eye donation.
Karnataka s Health Minister Dr Sudhakar commends Narayana Nethralaya s initiative on organ donation ANI | Updated: Jan 12, 2021 12:25 IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 12 (ANI/PRNewswire): Karnataka s Health and Family Welfare and Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar on the 9th of January commended the initiative of Narayana Nethralaya, Asia s premier eye hospital, in driving awareness for organ donation, which had come down severely across the state due to Covid-19 era and expressed his desire to replicate the model with other healthcare institutes along with the premier eye care provider.