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Monday, February 24, 2025

Proman helps vaccinate almost 4 per cent of population

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1262 days ago
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Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is sheltered by a Parliament police officer on his arrival at yesterday’s opening of the 2nd Session of the 12th Republican Parliament.

Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh is sheltered by a Parliament police officer on his arrival at yesterday’s opening of the 2nd Session of the 12th Republican Parliament.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has hailed his min­istry’s part­ner­ship with Pro­man Trinidad, which ad­min­is­tered close to 50,000 dos­es of COVID-19 vac­cines in just eight weeks.

Yes­ter­day, Pro­man Trinidad said as part of the Na­tion­al Pri­vate Sec­tor COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve it has proud­ly sup­port­ed the Min­istry of Health to de­liv­er over 46,000 dos­es of COVID-19 vac­cine, which it said rep­re­sents ap­prox­i­mate­ly 3.4 per cent of the over­all Trinidad and To­ba­go pop­u­la­tion.

Pro­man es­tab­lished a dri­ve-thru fa­cil­i­ty and a walk-in clin­ic to ad­min­is­ter vac­cines to the pub­lic at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va. This site be­came op­er­a­tional on Ju­ly 19.

Ac­cord­ing to Pro­man’s Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor Claus Cron­berg­er, the vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve ex­ceed­ed ex­pec­ta­tions.

“We are im­mense­ly proud of what our teams have achieved, far sur­pass­ing the tar­gets that were ini­tial­ly set and lead­ing from the front to de­liv­er a seam­less vac­ci­na­tion ex­pe­ri­ence.”

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh al­so hailed the suc­cess of the ini­tia­tive and the con­tri­bu­tion of the pri­vate sec­tor.

“The Min­istry of Health is pleased to have part­nered with Pro­man Trinidad in this vac­ci­na­tion cam­paign. The on­go­ing di­rect par­tic­i­pa­tion of the pri­vate sec­tor in the COVID-19 vac­ci­na­tion dri­ve con­tributes to the na­tion­al thrust to get ‘vac­cines in­to arms’. As the vac­ci­na­tion cam­paign con­tin­ues, the min­istry looks for­ward to con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors as we vac­ci­nate Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

Ac­cord­ing to Pro­man, the mass vac­ci­na­tion ini­tia­tive tran­si­tioned to a new phase on Sep­tem­ber 1, sup­port­ed by the Point Lisas En­er­gy As­so­ci­a­tion (PLEA) and Pro­man. It said the three-week ex­ten­sion will run un­til Sep­tem­ber 17 as a walk-in on­ly clin­ic, ad­min­is­ter­ing the Pfiz­er BioN­Tech COVID-19 vac­cine on the 1st lev­el of the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um. The clin­ic will op­er­ate from Mon­day–Fri­day week­ly, from 8 am to 3:30 pm.


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