Sindh Health Minister Dr Azra Pechuho has said that the vaccination campaign in the province would begin on Feb 3 as announced previously.
Sharing details of the rollout in a video message, she said only doctors and healthcare professionals would be vaccinated in the first phase. "The vaccine available to us is Sinopharm's vaccine and its efficacy is 90 per cent," she added.
Pechuho also shared a list of the adult vaccination centres (AVCs) that have been established by the Sindh government.
List of AVCs:
- Korangi Hospital, Karachi
- Urban Health Centre, Malir, Karachi
- Ojha Hospital, Karachi
- Qatar Hospital, Karachi
- Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi
- Khaliq Dina Hall, Karachi
- Liaquatabad Hospital, Karachi
- Sindh Government Hospital, Karachi
- Children's Hospital, Karachi
- Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Hyderabad
- Mother and child healthcare centre (MCH), Benazirabad
Elaborating on the campaign, she said that people would be vaccinated on different days and the data would be uploaded to national monitoring systems for "transparent and equitable" distribution.