BAF partners with leading hospitals of Bengaluru to bring vaccination to the doorstep of RWAs
BENGALURU:
Bangalore Apartments’ Federation (BAF), a grouping of over 950 apartment complexes, on Saturday launched a #Vax4All campaign to facilitate Covid-19 vaccination support for residents of RWAs across Bengaluru. For the campaign, BAF is partnering with leading hospital chains of Bengaluru like Manipal Hospitals, Fortis Healthcare, Narayana Health and Apollo Hospitals to facilitate community-level vaccination camps for various categories of residents and staff working there. Through this campaign, BAF plans to support about 2Lakh households across their member network with more than a million residents and staff who could avail the benefit.
BBMP chief lauds initiative
Inaugurating the digital launch of the campaign, BBMP Chief Commissioner Gaurav Gupta said, “BBMP has been working very closely with BAF on many aspects of Covid management like testing and containment measures at apartment complexes. While the number of cases is coming down, we need to continue taking essential measures to ensure that the current peak is effectively contained and future preparedness is built in. Vaccination is a very important step towards that – vaccine supplies are getting better too, with Bengaluru having vaccinated more than 1 lakh people yesterday. It is good to know that RWAs are able to collaborate with leading private healthcare providers to cover many residents in the upcoming days.”
Karthik Rajagopal, group COO of Manipal Hospitals, said, “This campaign is an opportunity for RWAs to not only get all qualifiying persons vaccinated, but build preparedness for the third wave which is likely to impact children more, as well as build more long-term resilience towards health and wellness in the communities.”
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‘Speed is critical’
Dr Manish Mattoo, Zonal Director of Fortis Healthcare, said, “It is very important to vaccinate a large number of people in a short span of time such that they can become less of a threat to susceptible groups in future — hence the speed of the vaccination is very critical. We are happy to collaborate with BAF to help cover as many people as quickly as possible.”
Dr Yatheesh Govindaiah, Unit Head-Jayanagar and Assitant Medical Director-Karnataka for Apollo Hospitals, said, “We will work very closely with BAF to vaccinate the maximum number of people in the upcoming days. We seek the support of the RWAs availing this campaign to help the hospital teams focus on core vaccination while residents can volunteer for other support tasks during the camps”
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Focus on 60+, 45+ groups
The BAF team, including president HA Nagaraja Rao, vice-president K Arun Kumar and general secretary Vikram Rai, explained that BAF will play the role of a facilitator to ensure that maximum RWAs avail the vaccination coverage, focus groups like 60+ and 45+ categories get prioritized to seek express scheduling, and partner hospitals are supported to receive requests in a streamlined manner such that they can execute vaccine deployment with high efficiency and scale.
Any RWAs desirous of participating in this campaign can write to BAF at info@baf.org.in
