Bangalore Apartments’ Federation is now tying up with hospitals to inoculate residents and workers

Bengaluru: On May 29, the Bangalore Apartments’ Federation (BAF) which is a federation of over 950 apartment complexes, launched the #Vax4AllCampaign to administer the vaccination process for residents of resident welfare associations across Bengaluru. This is done to give respite to the stretched healthcare system due to the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

BAF said that it was partnering with prominent city hospital chains like Manipal Hospitals, Fortis Healthcare, Narayana Health, and Apollo Hospitals to facilitate community-level inoculation camps for residents and domestic/housekeeping workers employed in apartment complexes. In a statement, BAF said, “Through this campaign, BAF plans to support about two lakh households across their member network with more than a million residents and staff who could avail the benefit.”

BBMP commissioner Gaurav Gupta had inaugurated the campaign virtually. He said, “While the number of cases are coming down, we need to continue taking essential measures to ensure that the current peak is effectively contained and future preparedness is built in. Vaccination is a very important step towards that – vaccine supplies are getting better too, with Bengaluru having vaccinated more than 1 lakh people yesterday (May 28).”

The BAF team which includes President HA Nagaraja Rao, Vice President K Arun Kumar, and General Secretary Vikram Rai, said that BAF will be the facilitator to ensure that maximum RWAs utilize the service, focus groups like 60+ and 45+ categories get priority for the vaccination drive and partner hospitals are supported to receive requests in a streamlined manner in such a way so as to execute vaccine deployment with high efficiency and scale.

Any RWA/apartment association wishing to participate in the campaign can write to BAF at info@baf.org.in. As of May 29, the vaccine doses administered in BBMP limits were 27,64,922 and those administered in Bengaluru Urban DC limits were 3,77.840.