TANAHUN, SEPTEMBER 24
Myagde Rural Municipality has started vaccinating people with disabilities against COV- ID-19 at their homes.
The rural municipality had organised mobile vaccination camps in various locations and extended that to a door-to door service for the PWDs.
Purna Bahadur Saru, a resident of Ward No 3 in the rural municipality, was happy to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at his home on yesterday. He said that finally physically challenged people had got to feel the presence of the local government.
On the fourth day of the mobile camp organised by the rural municipality, residents of the rural municipality were happy when health workers reached the homes of the physically challenged and started providing vaccination against COVID-19 as well as other health services.
Narayan Bahadur Hunching, 29, who is bed-ridden due to a spinal injury, was happy to get the COVID-19 vaccine and emphasised that the government should pay special attention to PWDs more than ordinary people.
Chief Administrative Officer of the rural municipality Narayan Prasad Adhikari shared that since the people with disabilities could not come to the mobile camp, services were provided in their homes. He said that people had appreciated the door-todoor integrated mobile service.
Head of Health Unit of the rural municipality Dinesh Pandit said that when the camp was completed at seven places by the fourth day, 267 adults received the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19, 17 received the first dose, 18 received the second dose, and 232 received the third (booster) dose.
The mobile camp has been completed at seven places including Manhau, Gunadi and Bakhre of Ward No 1, Gunjara, Jamune, Rishithum and Pipaldihi of Ward No 2. The rural municipality office said that the camp would run till October 17.
A version of this article appears in the print on September 25, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.
