Kerala IT Parks and Technopark Employees Cooperative (TEC) Hospital in collaboration with the IT Companies have launched the largest Covid 19 vaccination drive for State’s IT professionals and their family members. The vaccination programme was inaugurated on Saturday by Kadakampally Surendran MLA at a facility set up by the H&R Block in Technopark. The first phase of inoculation for employees of more than 450 companies in the Technopark and their family members has begun on Saturday.
This will be extended to the entire IT workforce at the Infopark in Kochi and Cyberpark in Kozhikode and separate inoculation camps will be set up in both places in the coming weeks.TEC Hospital has procured two lakh Covishield jabs exclusively for the IT community in the State and is the first cooperative sector establishment in the State to procure vaccine directly from manufacturer for the massive inoculation drive. The hospital has received 25,000 jabs in the first batch.
“Kerala Govt. IT parks in collaboration with IT Companies is taking a significant step to ensure the safety of IT professionals and their family members. The vaccination drive would help to bring the workforce and normalcy back to the IT campuses across the State. We hope this effort will bring much-needed relief to the IT fraternity, their families and IT companies in these challenging times,” said John M Thomas, Chief Executive Officer at Kerala State IT Parks.
The drive is a great relief to several companies and their employees operating out of various IT parks. Few of the big tech companies in Technopark and Infopark have started vaccinating their employees with limited jabs. “The inoculation drive is open for all the IT workforce in both govt run and private IT parks in the state,” Said Binu R. Kurup, President of TEC Hospital.
Thiruvananthapuram MP Dr. Shashi Tharoor, who played a key role in the procurement of the jabs from the manufacturer, felicitated the event through a video message. E Nizamudheen, Joint Registrar, Dept. of Cooperation, A Shareef, Assistant Registrar, Dept. of Cooperation, Anoop Ambika, Vice President TECHS, G.L Arun Gopi, Secretary TECHS, Hari Prasad, Director of H&R Block also spoke.