Staff Reporter :
Ordinary people thronged the fixed medical centers on the third day of mass vaccination to take the opportunity of spot registration after being failure over the online registration due to server related complexities.
As a result, there were seen long queues throughout the day at designated hospitals in the capital city.
The interest has inspired the common people to get the opportunity of spot registration using the national identity card.
Any citizen over the age of 40 can register for vaccination in this way.
Earlier, online registration-related complexities continued even on the second day of the countrywide mass inoculation programme, as many people could not complete their digital listing to take the vaccine.
About 1,80,082 people have been vaccinated in the first three days. Of them, 74,586 are males and 26,496 are females.
At this time, about five and a half lakh vaccine seekers have been registered on the security website.
To avert such digital trouble, the state-run Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) instructed the dedicated immunisation teams to allow vaccine-seekers by collecting their NID numbers, birth certificates and telephone numbers in case of access-related problem.
It was about 9 o’clock in the morning, but a crowd of vaccine hopefuls have gathered at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the capital on Tuesday.
Though the crowd was high at the center; it took short time to get vaccination if registration was done.BSMMU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Kanak Kanti Barua said people’s flow for taking the vaccine started rising at the centres, where eight booths were in operation to this effect.
DGHS Director (MIS) Dr Mizanur Rahman said, they have already instructed the dedicated vaccination teams to allow the people intending to get vaccinated by collecting necessary documents like NID number, birth certificate and contact number from them to avert the server access-related trouble.
The teams will, later, incorporate the required information on the website, he added.
Experts, however, urged the people to consult with the doctors if symptoms like fever and allergies occur after taking the vaccine.
They said that there is nothing to fear about mild fever or body aches after taking vaccination.
If you have allergies, you should take consultation from physicians. Besides, everyone is being kept under observation for 30 minutes initially, said a health expert.
Earlier on Monday, the age limit for vaccination had been reduced from 55 to 40 on Monday. With that, the opportunity of spot registration has been confirmed. After the vaccination, everyone was relieved of anxiety.
One of the vaccinators said, “He didn’t feel unwell about the vaccine though he had a heart problem.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh will get 131,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine under Covax program at the end of February, Health Services Division Secretary Md Abdul Mannan has said.
Besides, the second consignment of the same vaccine will reach the country from the Serum Institute of India in late February, he told reporters on Tuesday while visiting the vaccination program at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Under the Covax program, Bangladesh will get 12,792,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine in the first half of 2021.
Covax is co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Gavi vaccine alliance, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh started the vaccination drive across the country on Sunday, using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
