COIMBATORE The district administration had ordered the vaccination of frontline workers from February 1 and instructed Deputy Director, Health Services, to make the necessary arrangements, said a release from Collector K. Rajamani.
Personnel from police, local bodies and Revenue Department who were frontline workers and had joined hands with their counterparts from the Health Department could start getting vaccinated at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, government hospitals in Pollachi and Mettupalayam, 10 urban primary health centres and 12 block primary health centres.
The vaccination of frontline workers followed an order from the Chief Minister, Mr. Rajamani said and added that for health workers, the administration had ordered vaccination from January 16 and had, thus far, administered the vaccine to 7,826 persons.
Good response to pulse polio immunisation drive
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February 01, 2021 02:27 IST
A total of 6,536 workers, including Health Department staff and volunteers, are involved in the immunisation drive in the district.
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Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development S.P. Velumani administering polio vaccine drops to a child at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Sunday. | Photo Credit: Siva SaravananS
A total of 6,536 workers, including Health Department staff and volunteers, are involved in the immunisation drive in the district.
The pulse polio immunisation drive held on Sunday achieved 99% coverage in Coimbatore district with 3,36,798 children in the 0-5 years age group administered the oral polio drops. Health workers maintained precautions against COVID-19 during the drive.
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Of the 36 children, around 10 to 12 who are over the age of eight may receive insulin pumps
COIMBATORE: As many as 36 children from poor background with type 1 diabetes being treated in Coimbatore Medical College Hospital will soon receive the latest type of insulin replacement therapy.
City-based Idhayangal Charitable Trust (www.idhayangal.org) has decided to launch a special programme called ‘Kovai Thulir’, under which each of these 36 children will be given a refrigerator each to store insulin, a glucometer with 25 strips every month and an insulin pen or pump, where the needle is much finer than a normal injection needle, free of cost.
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COIMBATORE: A 43-year-old life convict lodged at the Coimbatore Central Jail died after falling ill on Thursday night.
The deceased was identified as P Murugasamy, a resident of Udumalpet in Tirupur district. He was arrested under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 in October 2018 for abducting a nine-year-old girl and sexually assaulting her. The Tirupur mahila court had convicted him to life imprisonment in April 2019.
Murugasamy had complained of breathing difficulties and used inhaler on Thursday, a prison official said. “His cellmate alerted us after he collapsed around 11.30pm. We providing first aid at the prison hospital and took him to the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital. But CMCH doctors declared him as brought dead,” he said.