Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 5: The ex-president of Indian Dental Association (IDA), Jammu Central Branch, Dr Surinder Kumar has appealed the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to registered all private dental surgeons for COVID vaccination.
In a statement issued today, Dr Surinder said that 4300 private dental surgeons of the Union Territory who have been treating patients in the front line at a distance of less than one foot have not been included in the frontline workers for administration of COVID vaccine and their names have not been registered on the portal which has now been closed.
“There has been no intimation to these 4300 registered private dental practitioners to provide the required data for the same. These private dental practitioners have also been in the forefront to treat patients from May 2020,” he said and request the concerned authorities to kindly take notice of this grave ignorance and take steps to include dental surgeons on priority basis like the rest of frontline workers.
He said that all private dental practitioners in Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and other States of India have already been registered and majority of them have been inoculated with the first dose.
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