KATHMANDU: As the government prepares to vaccinate against coronavirus from Wednesday, the Ministry of Health and Population has said that the vaccination will be started from 62 hospitals initially.

Prime Minister KP Oli will inaugurate the vaccination campaign and will be initiated in all seven states.

However, the ministry said that the number of hospitals may increase.

According to the Ministry, hospitals in all districts will be made vaccination centers, and the vaccines will reach all the states by Monday barring some hilly districts.

In the Kathmandu Valley, the ministry has designated 17 hospitals for vaccination. The hospitals include Nepal Medical College, Ganga Lal Hospital, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Army Hospital, Nepal Police Hospital, Armed Police Force Hospital, Veer Hospital, Ayurveda Training Center Kirtipur, Teku Hospital, Maternity Home, Patan Hospital, Kathmandu Medical College and Civil Hospital.

Likewise, Kist Medical College, Ananda One Hospital, and Korean Hospital and Bhaktapur Hospital have been designated for vaccination.

Similarly, the ministry will designate some hospitals in districts such as Kaski, Chitwan, Moranag and Rupandehi.

Vaccination will be given to health workers and frontline workers at the initial phase.

The Ministry of Health and Population has already prepared a list of 430,000 frontline health workers and other high-risk workers to be vaccinated.

Among them, as many as 2,25,782 are health workers and others are sanitation workers, ambulance drivers, hearse drivers, women’s health volunteers and frontline security personnel.