COVID-19: Over 3 lakh IMA members offer service in Govt vaccine program

"The IMA offers the services of more than 3 lakhs of its members who are qualified modern medicine doctors, in the COVID- 19 vaccination programme of the Government," the letter stated.

Asserting that the IMA has 1,750 branches spread over all the districts of the country, the doctors'' body said an effective top-down command and control is in place with 28 state branches.

Most of the members have a small team of nurses for their professional practice while a large number of small and medium hospitals and nursing homes in sub-district towns are run by IMA members. Such practitioners are available even in remote, hilly districts. Moreover many of them have taken part in the pulse polio vaccination drive and many such government welfare programs as well, it said.

"The IMA will work with the government with full zeal and strength at all levels to implement the programme on a war footing so as to reach each and every citizen of the country at the earliest.

"We hereby appeal to your good self and the government, to effectively utilise this trained technical manpower of the IMA in this noble cause thereby serving the entire community in the country in line with our culture and ethos of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam," the letter said.

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