7-day Covid vaccination campaign from Dec 1 marking Victory Day

Staff Reporter :
Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Tuesday said that the Health Directorate will conduct a fresh booster dose campaign in the 1st week of December to curb the Covid-19 surge in the country.
“The Directorate General of the Health Services (DGHS) will conduct a weeklong fresh Covid-19 booster shots inoculation campaign from December 1 to 7 to mark the month of victory,” the minister said at a function organized on the occasion of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week in a city hotel.
Disease control department of the DGHS has organised the programme.
The health minister said that about 90 lakh people to be brought under inoculation in this campaign.”All of our previous campaigns have been successful. We hope the next drive also would be successful. We have inoculated first dose to about 13.9 crore of the people which was 98 per cent of the target. Besides, about 12.42 crore dose second dose inoculation also have been completed which is 95 pc of the target,” the minister said.
“The government has achieved notable success in administering Covid-19 vaccines in first and second dose. But there are about four crore of the people waiting for getting booster shots,” he said.
Meanwhile, the health minister said there is law banning sale of antibiotic medicines without doctors’ prescriptions but the law has no implementations.
“Pharmacies conn’t sell anti-biotic medicines without registered physician’s prescriptions in any country in the globe. But in the case of our country, the pharmacies are selling antibiotics as like as essential products,” the health minister said.
There is a law to bar it but there is no implementation of it, he added.