Free vaccination drive through private hospitals launched in city
The Hindu
A total of ₹ 1.10 crore received as CSR funding for the drive
Administration of COVID-19 vaccination free of cost through private hospitals using Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funding started in Coimbatore on Saturday. Minister for Food and Civil Supplies R. Sakkarapani inaugurated the drive at PSG Hospitals in the presence of District Collector G.S. Sameeran and senior officials of the Health Department. A total of ₹ 1.10 crore was received as CSR funding for free vaccination drive through private hospitals as of Saturday. Covishield vaccine could be administered to 17,560 persons using this funding.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.