Vaccination against Covid-19 has begun at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday with the hospital’s ENT department head Prof Dr Sheikh Nurul Fattah Rumi given the first shot.
DMCH’s medicine department registrar Dr Farhad Uddin Hasan Chowdhury Maruf and several other physicians were also inoculated with Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine doses after Prof Rumi.
DMCH Director Brig Gen Nazmul Haque said they will run the vaccination at four booths installed at the hospital.
The coronavirus vaccination campaign began in five hospitals of the capital city on Thursday ahead of rolling out the campaign on February 8 across the country for selected priority groups.
The five hospitals are - Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), Kurmitola General Hospital, Mugda General Hospital, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital.
Earlier, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the vaccination campaign at Kurmitola General Hospital through videoconferencing from her official residence Ganabhaban on Wednesday afternoon.
A group of 26 frontline fighters, including Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Additional Director General Nasima Sultana, were injected with Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine doses after the inauguration on Wednesday.
