Former corporator and secretary of Mysuru Beedi Workers' Association K C Showkath Pasha has appealed to the district administration, to start vaccination at the Central Hospital for Beedi Workers, on Mahadevapura Main Road in the city for the benefit of the people in the neighbourhood.
In a letter addressed to Deputy Commissioner Rohini Sindhuri, Pasha has stated, “It is true that there are many primary health centers, and also private hospital, providing the service of vaccination, in Mysuru city. The Central Hospital for Beedi Workers is a huge facility, where thousands of beedi workers and their family members are registered. The daily out-patient reporting is around 350 persons. The hospital is situated amidst the thickly populated areas like Azeez Sait Nagar, Nehru Nagar, Srinagar, Sathagalli Layout, Rajiv Nagar, KSCB Colony, and Kalyangiri, that makes four or five wards of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC).”
“Already Covid tests, RT-PCR, are being conducted regularly in this hospital. There were also plans to convert it into a Covid Care Centre, earlier. Thus, administering the vaccines in the Central Hospital for Beedi Workers will be in the interest of economically weaker residents of the neighbourhood and also the general public,” the letter reads.