Chennai: Rela Hospital in Chennai on Wednesday launched the Covid vaccination drive with Covishield vaccine.

According to a press release, Dr J Radhakrishnan, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, government of Tamilnadu, and Professor Mohamed Rela, CMD, Rela Hospital, formally launched the vaccination drive to all healthcare workers as well as frontline workers at the Hospital.

The recipients can get vaccinated by using their government identity cards.

The CMD said, “At Rela Hospital, we have treated around 2500 Covid patients in the last 10 months and we are moving to the next step in the prevention of Covid-19 by launching the vaccination drive. I am happy to share here that, I had taken the Covishield vaccine during the trial period in Chennai two months before and I do not have any side effects till now and my antibody level has been on the higher side post-vaccination”.

“We will be completing the vaccination drive to all our 1100 health care workers by next week and we are also prepared to provide vaccination to neighbouring health care workers'” said Dr Ilankumaran, CEO, Rela Hospital.