coimbatore the health department is planning to trace 36000 teenagers in the 1518 age group who are not attending schools or colleges with the help of nongovernmental organisations to vaccinate them against covidthese teens are dropouts and many of them could have already started working an official said of the 161 lakh people in the 1518 age category in coimbatore 125 lakh are attending educational institutions while 113 lakh of them have been vaccinated we are struggling to find 36000 people he saidsome of the 36000 kids who are away from educational institutions could have come forward and got vaccinated said deputy director of health services p aruna we do not have exact data on how many of them received vaccine it is clear that the majority of them have not got the vaccine we are planning to work with ngos to get them vaccinated she saidmeanwhile the booster dose camps conducted by the district administration at primary health centres urban primary health centres and government hospitals received good response many who have completed nine months after two doses of vaccination got themselves vaccinated