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AIIMS Director Pushes For Private Sector Involvement To Aid Roll Out Of Covid Vaccine For General Public
Swarajya Staff
Feb 21, 2021, 04:45 PM | Updated 04:45 PM IST
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Director of New Delhi based AIIMS, Dr Randeep Guleria has made a case for involving the private sector in the nationwide vaccination programme to inoculate the masses against COVID-19, reports Livemint.
While terming the recent fall in COVID-19 cases in the nation as a "small window of opportunity", Dr Guleria has emphasised that there is a lot to do on the vaccination front and that we need to develop a mechanism where the public and private sector can start to roll out vaccines at a large scale.
Pushing that vaccine is the only weapon available to gain immunity and help reduce mortality rate, Dr Guleria pushed that there is a need to gradually start opening up to cover a large number of people.
Dr Guleria said, "Vaccinating health care workers and front line workers is probably the easy part as far as Phase 1 is concerned as you know who needs to be vaccinated. The number is not that large. Once you start the process to vaccinate 27 crore individuals, in that scenario we must have a robust programme in place where you have the list of people to be vaccinated."
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