Tripura News in brief: Doc felicitated over Covid vax roll out; Lions club sets up Oxygen Bank
Covid Vax: Tripura Doc felicitated
Tripura State Immunization Officer Dr Mousumi Sarkar was felicitated for her contributions to Covid Vaccination in the State, a tweet by National Health Mission (NHM) of Tripura mentioned.
She was felicitated in presence of Country MD of NHM, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & other dignitaries.
The felicitation was held at the National Workshop on Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) Module under CoWIN platform. It was organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in support with the UNDP India in New Delhi.
The citation read, “Dr Mousumi Sarkar Your contribution to successful roll out of the Covid Vaccination drive in India is valued. We applaud your dedication and meticulous effort. July 2022”.
Dr Sarkar is an MD, Community medicine. State #Immunization officer, State program officer NUHM, #AnemiaMuktBharat, NDD, Govt. of Tripura.National Assessor at NHSRC,MOHFW, GOI.
Lions Club sets up Oxygen Concentrator bank
The Lions Club of Agartala set up Oxygen concentrator bank considering growing demand for artificial oxygen in health care services. The Oxygen Bank has been set up at the Ujjayanta Market in Agartala on Wednesday (July 27). At present, the ‘bank’ started with 12 Oxygen concentrators.
“The initiative has been taken keeping in mind oxygen requirement during Covid situation. It aims at ensuring that the patients can be treated keeping them at homes and they need not to go the hospital just because of oxygen”, said Lion Pranab Sarkar to the media.
Any person can borrow oxygen concentrator equipment from the Lions Club at Ujjayanta Market after providing necessary documents and subject to conditions. Explaining further, Lion Pranab Sarkar said a nominal amount will be kept as a security deposit which will be refunded after the concentrators are returned.
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