Kerala Providing Doorstep Covid Vaccination For Bedridden Patients

Across Kerala, medical teams have a mammoth task cut out for them - to vaccinate around 1,68,000 bedridden palliative care patients at their homes.

Anandavalli, 80, is partially paralysed and under the state's palliative care for the last four years. Her only source of income is Rs 1,600, a pension she gets every month, and her daughter is a daily wager. On Thursday, a medical team inoculated her with the first Covid vaccine dose at her home. "I am really relieved that this medical team has come to our home. My mother's condition and the family situation are not such that we could have taken her to the hospital for vaccination," Sheela, the beneficiary's daughter, said. Many beneficiaries of palliative care come from the economically weaker sections of the society. Across Kerala, medical teams have a mammoth task cut out for them - to vaccinate around 1,68,000 bedridden palliative care patients at their homes. For now, around 1,000 have been given their first jabs over the week. Of the 14 Kerala districts, four haven't started the project yet.