Two centenarians get vaccine
The Hindu
The 101-year-old Rati Poojarthi from Nakre village and 100-year-old Koosu Sapaliga from Sachcharipete village, both in Karkala taluk, were among the 5,010 people who received COVID-19 vaccine in Udupi
The 101-year-old Rati Poojarthi from Nakre village and 100-year-old Koosu Sapaliga from Sachcharipete village, both in Karkala taluk, were among the 5,010 people who received COVID-19 vaccine in Udupi district on Thursday.
Karkala Taluk Health Officer Krishnanand Shetty said that the two centenarians were among the several elderly in the taluk who are being vaccinated as part of the ongoing “Har Ghar Dastak” programme wherein health personnel visit houses to administer vaccine.
Dr. Shetty said that the Health Department staff arranged several rounds of counselling for family members of Ms. Poojarthi and Ms. Sapaliga before the latter agreed to get their first dose of the vaccine. Kukkundur Primary Healthcare Officers Kumudavati and Anita and ASHA Suma administered the vaccine to Ms. Poojarthi, while Sachcharipete PHOs Vimala and Bharati and ASHA Shashikala administered the dose to Ms. Sapaliga.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.