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More than 800 Haj pilgrims were vaccinated escaped of outgo astatine peculiar camps organised successful Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupattur, and Tiruvannamalai districts connected Wednesday.
Officials of the Directorate of Public Health (DPH) and Preventive Medicine, which organised the initiative, said that the wellness teams successful these camps volition look into implicit screening of pilgrims, fittingness verification, and vaccination. The campy is held erstwhile a year.
The initiative, which volition beryllium completed successful these districts by Friday, is being done successful coordination with the State and territory Haj committees. The campy is mostly held astatine the Collectorate oregon the territory wellness bureau owed to casual accessibility of these places. “Pilgrims were administered the quadrivalent vaccine against meningitis and were fixed oral polio drops. All pilgrims implicit the property of 65 were besides administered the influenza vaccine,” K. Satish Kumar, Deputy Director of Health Services (DDHS) In-charge, Vellore, told The Hindu.
Among these districts, Tirupattur had the highest fig of pilgrims astatine 320, who were vaccinated astatine the four-day camp, followed by Vellore (226), Ranipet (190) and Tiruvannamalai (71). The camp, connected an average, has 2 physicians and 2 nurses.
