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Navi Mumbai Starts COVID-19 Vaccination Drive For Homeless

The neighbouring Thane Municipal Corporation last week launched a special drive to put up a Covid-19 jab for transgender people in the city

Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has started administering COVID-19 vaccines to homeless persons and beggars, a civic official said on Thursday.

Fourteen such people from the Belapur division were administered the vaccine as part of the initiative on Wednesday, he added.

He claimed that the NMMC was probably the first civic body in Maharashtra to conduct vaccination campaigns for homeless persons and beggars.

He said the special drive would cover all areas of NMMC in the next 10 days.

The official also said that the COVID-19 vaccination in NMMC limits has crossed the five lakh mark.

NMMC commissioner Abhijit Bhangar said, “We will ensure that no one is left out of the vaccination campaign. Hence, a campaign has been launched to cover homeless persons and beggars.”

A team of health officials will visit various places and vaccinate homeless persons. Since such people do not have identity proof, their biometric details will be collected, the civic spokesperson said.

“We are conducting vaccination after collecting fingerprints of such beneficiaries and registering their names on the government portal,” the official said. He said that special software has been developed to record fingerprint data.

He also said that the help of NGOs would be taken to identify the homeless people. The official said that transgender persons would also be vaccinated.

The neighbouring Thane Municipal Corporation last week launched a special drive to put up a Covid-19 jab for transgender people in the city.

Meanwhile, another official said that the medical facilities at the civic-run Rukminibai Hospital in Kalyan town of Thane district would soon be upgraded.

The hospital, which caters to a large number of patients, will soon get the CT scan and MRI test facilities, he said

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