Health workers below 45 cry foul over denial of slot booking

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
themselves vaccinated against Covid-19
Doctors say many of them, especially postgraduate students, interns and nurses working in the state-run Covid-19 hospitals are not able to
It is not just common people, even doctors and nurses are running around the city trying to find a place where they can get their second
Services to stop walk-in vaccination even for healthcare workers and other frontline staffers through self-registration do not make any
sense
How can those working in Covid wards be denied vaccination? Many are due for 2nd dose
it was high time that the health department officials issued a circular allowing healthcare workers for walk-in vaccinations, or even
better, establish a designated vaccination centre in each district for healthcare workers and frontline warriors, so that they can
office up to Wednesday evening, 63,337 healthcare workers in Telangana have to get their second dose of Covid-19 vaccines
And a whopping 1,65,494 front line workers too need to get their second doses of the vaccines
However, all of them do not need to get them immediately as the second dose of the vaccines are to be taken about a month after taking the
first dose.But the absence of an option for them to register for getting their shots has left doctors, nurses, other healthcare and
this correspondent said it was not just common people who had to spend hours in front of a computer to try and find a slot for registering
for vaccination
A young doctor from Osmania General Hospital said OGH previously had a vaccination centre which had been shut down