Threat of third COVID-19 wave looms: AIIMS nurses union urges Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to provide vaccines for healthcare workers' family members

AIIMS Nurses Union wrote, "We request you to kindly take immediate measures to provide vaccines for the family members of HCWs (belongs to the age group of 18-45 years) at the earliest on a high priority basis." 

New Delhi: AIIMS Nurses Union has requested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to provide COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers' family members, belonging to the age group 18 to 45 years, on a priority basis.  In a letter to the Delhi CM, nurses union's president Harish Kumar Kajla and general secretary Fameer CK said that though most of the AIIMS healthcare workers have received both the doses of Covaxin, most of their family members aged 18 to 45 years are facing difficulties in finding a slot, PTI reported.  "Many frontliners have expressed their concerns about the delay in vaccinating their near ones as poor vaccination may end up in exacerbation of infection as the threat of the third wave of virus crisis looms ahead," AIIMS Nurses Union said in the letter.