Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District Working Journalists’ Association and district administration organised a free vaccination drive for the Journalists and their family members in Mangalore Press Club here on Wednesday, June 23.
District health officer (DHO), Dr Kishore Kumar after inaugurating the vaccination drive said, “To prevent the pandemic from spreading, everyone should get the Covid-19 vaccination. Due to the fact that vaccines are available in phases, adults over the age of 45 are given first priority. As the journalists are frontline warriors the government decided to vaccinate journalists and their family members on priority. Hence, the Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists’ Association has organised this vaccination drive to vaccinate family members of journalists,” he said.
As many as 550 journalists, their family members, newspaper agents and their families received the jab. The vaccination drive was also held in Yekkur Primary Health Center under the initiative of Dr Rehana and Dr Soumya.