KOLKATA: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation will finally reach out to the elderly and the infirm citizens with the vaccination-at-home offer. In a bid to bring city’s elderly and ailing population under the vaccination net in the wake of a surge in cases, the KMC health department will reach out to those who will apply for such a jab at home as they can’t move out of their houses.
A senior citizen, who is suffering from some kind of serious illness and can’t visit a KMC run vaccination clinic, needs to apply to mayor Firhad Hakim on his WhatsApp number (9830037493). A KMC team will reach the applicant’s place in the evening. The vaccine, however, will be administered in presence of a registered medical practitioner, said Hakim on Monday. The civic body, Hakim said, was putting stress on vaccination of the elderly as well as younger people.
