How Health Workers Managed 100% Vaccination Of Nilgiris Tribals
NDTV
Doctors and health workers visited nearly 1,300 tribal settlements to achieve the 100% vaccination target.
She walks for an hour inside a forest, on a slippery road, to arrive at a tribal settlement. She finds an eighty-year-old tribal woman waiting to get her second dose of the Covid vaccine.
Dr R Sandhya was part of the team that achieved the feat of administering the COVID-19 vaccine to 100% of the tribal population in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri district.
The Tamil Nadu government announced that double vaccination had been completed for all those eligible in the community of over 21,000. Many of them live in difficult terrain in remote forest areas.
NDTV accompanied two health teams on their vaccination drives and observed the challenges they faced.
