QNCC centre administers over 650,000 Covid shots

The Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) announced that the national mass Covid-19 vaccination centre at Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) which closed on June 29, had achieved its goal of administering over 650,000 vaccines to the eligible population of Qatar.

The Mass Vaccination Campaign project at Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) started on February 18, 2021, aiming to maximise the vaccine administration capacity in Qatar and immunise a wider population efficiently and quickly.

The education sector cohort being the priority group, it achieved 70% vaccination of both doses for teaching, nonteaching staff and eligible students.

“PHCC proudly undertook this project with support from the leadership. The collective effort to effectively, and efficiently, reach out to the community and successfully administer many vaccines during this period has been extraordinary.

“Our teams have worked hard to deliver the vaccines to the most vulnerable in our communities. Thank you to everyone who has worked to support the project and to the public for their continued support and understanding,” said Dr Mariam Abdul Malik, managing director, PHCC.

For her part, executive director of operations at PHCC, Dr Samya al-Abdullah, said: “We are immensely proud of the effort and dedication to keeping our community’s safe and protected, by offering support and encouragement to help promote and deliver the Covid vaccination to our communities at the QNCC.”

The QNCC vaccination centre has played a core part in the success of the vaccine campaign in Qatar, providing an efficient, accessible service to all.

Project director at PHCC Dr Yasmin Ali Morad said: “This was a highly complex and megasize project that required detailed project planning, implementation of clear and robust systems and processes and continues monitoring and improvement.”

She explained that the requirements were dynamic, the change management and agility were one of key success factor.

More than 35 different teams, comprising more than 1,000 staff (400 administrative team members including core project team, technical support team, customer service and external teams of volunteers, security and MoI and more than 600 clinical team members including nurses, lab technicians/technologist, physicians, pharmacists and EMS on daily basis had to be co-ordinated well and communication was key to ensuring success not only within the team but also with other stakeholders and vaccination centres to ensure overall success.

The teams’ dedication can be gauged from the fact that they were able to administer more than 9,000 vaccination doses in a single day through one centre.

PHCC added that appointments will be scheduled soon for those who have received their first dose at QNCC, but have yet to get their second dose.