AMU Doctors conferred with 'The Saviour' award for COVID vaccine rollout in UP

Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University-AMU faculty members from the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Dr Husaini S Haider Mehdi (Department of Medicine) and Dr Ali Jafar Abedi (Department of Community Medicine) have been conferred with 'The Saviour' award of the National Health Mission-NHM and United Nations Development Programme-UNDP for extended services in advancing the COVID vaccine rollout in Uttar Pradesh.

"Their contribution and of other doctors spread across the Country has been vital for crossing a milestone of two billion COVID vaccine jabs in India", said Dr Neeraj Tyagi (CMO, Aligarh District) felicitating Dr Husaini Haider and Dr Jafar Abedi.

"Healthcare workers across the Country are administering the COVID vaccine doses despite increased personal risks and awards like these acknowledge our efforts for strengthening the fight against the pandemic", emphasized Dr Husaini Haider. 

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Dr Jafar Abedi pointed out: "Vaccination or fight against COVID is teamwork and singularly one could not do anything. Health workers have worked beyond the call of duty by dedicatedly serving at camping sites for hours from morning to evening daily to inoculate as many people as they could".

The university grew out of the work of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, a Muslim reformer and statesman.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that the Centre will provide free booster doses of COVID vaccines for the 18-59 age group at government vaccination centres under a 75-day special drive from July 15, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced. 

The free booster dose drive will be held for the next 75 days as part of the government's Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India's Independence and to boost the uptake of Covid precaution doses, he said.

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