40% jump in beneficiaries after introduction of walk-in facility
As many as 3,539 out of 3,852 HCWs inoculated at 10 centres in city on Friday
There has been a 40 per cent rise in the number of beneficiaries taking COVID-19 vaccine in Mumbai on the fourth day of the mass immunisation drive.
According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) data, 3,539 of 3,852 healthcare workers (HCWs) were inoculated at 10 vaccination centres on Friday indicating 92 per cent of them have been vaccinated so far. This comes after the decision to allow 'walk-in' vaccination for the registered healthcare workers at the vaccination centres. Moreover, most of the beneficiaries were sent back from the centres stating they have received enough of them and asked them to come when they received a message.
This is for the first time since the inoculation process began in the city from January 16, such a high number of healthcare workers have taken the COVID-19 vaccines. In the first three sessions, only 4852 per cent healthcare workers had come forward to receive the vaccine.
"The response to vaccination improved due to the walk-in facility allowed for the healthcare workers who are willing to take vaccine shots," said Mangla Gomare, executive health officer of BMC, adding that the some technical issues of CoWIN have been resolved, making the procedure smoother for them.
In the city, in the last four days of the vaccination, only 61.24 per cent of the shortlisted HCWs got inoculated. Out of the 14,352 HCWs who were called for vaccination, only 8,790 of them turned out for vaccination. In the city, around 1.30lakh HCWs have registered on the Cowin app for mass immunisation. Out of these, 70,000 of them are from private hospitals. Most of the major hospitals like Lilavati, Bombay, Hiranandani among others have around 2,000 HCWs.
The highest number - 685 HCWs -- were vaccinated at KEM hospital, followed by 572 at Babasaheb Ambedkar, 517 at Rajawadi hospital, 378 at BYL Nair, 368 at RN Cooper, 350 at BKC jumbo, 301 at LTMG (Sion), 271 90 at Bhabha, 72 at VN Desai and 25 at JJ hospital.