Port Blair, Jan 03: Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Member of Parliament of Andaman and Nicobar Islands has requested the Lt. Governor to direct the health department and education department to arrange vaccination of children in their respective schools, as per a well-planned schedule.
In a letter addressed to the Lt. Governor, the Member Parliament expressed gratitude towards Andaman and Nicobar Administration for starting vaccination for children between 15-18 years in Port Blair from today, which will greatly benefit children of these Islands and protect them from severe COVID-19 infection.
He pointed out that several parents have however informed him that they are worried about sending their children to already crowded vaccination centers, fearing infection because of avoidable exposure.
The Member of Parliament mentioned that according to parents instead of calling several groups of children from different schools to vaccination centers, they believe that the vaccination of students must be arranged in respective schools, so that children don’t have to come in contact with a large number of people at the vaccination center and the risk of infection is minimized.
He mentioned that all schools are already sanitized and are less crowded, where easily vaccination teams can visit date-wise and vaccinate children in a perfectly organized manner.
Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma added that gathering students at respective schools will also be easier for school authorities than taking them to vaccination centers. Moreover, parents can plan the safe movement of children from home to schools but for vaccination centers, no such safety can be planned.
He added that after detection of the Omicron variant in Andaman and rise in COVID-19 cases this is necessary to ensure the safety of children and their parents.
