Hyderabad: The Covid-19 vaccination drive took off here on Saturday with S Krishnamma, a safari karmachari or sanitation worker at Gandhi Hospital, becoming the first person to receive the vaccine. Witnessing the event were Health Minister Etala Rajendar, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy.
As many as 3,600 persons, all healthcare workers at government hospitals in Telangana, are slated to receive the vaccine on Saturday.
There was celebratory and festive mood at the hospital, as was the case at NIMS, and other hospitals and healthcare facilities – 140 in all in the state – where the vaccination drive began simultaneously. The overwhelming mood among those administering the vaccines and the recipients, reflected a strong sense of relief after the daily battle against Covid-19 medical personnel have been engaged in for nearly a year.
“I tested a few thousand samples for Covid-19,” a technician who was among the 30 who received the vaccine at Gandhi…