Over 5K HCWs inoculated; more vaccination centres to be opened

About 70 per cent of the healthcare workers were vaccinated at the 12 centres of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday as compared to 58 per cent which was done just a day before.

According to the vaccine data, 5,590 of 7,697 targeted healthcare workers (HCWs) were inoculated on the ninth sessions of the mass immunisation drive. Civic officials said there are days when the numbers are less, but there was a 14 per cent rise in the last 24 hours as they have added one more vaccine centre at NESCO jumbo centre, increasing total number of vaccine centres to 12 in city.

The highest number of 920 HCWs were vaccinated at BDBA Hospital, followed by 802 at KEM, 790 at Rajawadi Hospital, 584 at BKC jumbo, 543 at BYL Nair, 536 at RN

Cooper, 492 at Seven Hills, 264 at LTMG (Sion), 171 at NESCO jumbo, 120 at Bhabha, 139 at VN Desai and 41 at JJ Hospital.

Dr Mangala Gomare, chief of BMC’s public health department, said, “The turnout probably went down due to it being mid-week, but we are anticipating the turnout to go up during the weekend i.e Saturday. We also added the NESCO CCOVID-19 centre, which acts as the 12th vaccination centre.”

The BMC will soon add more vaccination centres, including the jumbo facilities at Dahisar, Mulund, and the jumbo facility at Richarson and Cruddas in Byculla.