BMC TARGETS 10K DOSES PER DAY
Aim is to complete first phase on time to allow the civic body to vaccinate those who have missed out
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now decided to vaccinate 10,000 healthcare workers on a daily basis following which they have decided to increase vaccination centres. Earlier they had planned to vaccinate 12,000 per day which they had to reduce to 4,000 on an inaugural day of mass vaccination drive due to technical glitches in the centralised Co-Win application. Officials said the main aim is to complete the first phase in the given time period due to which they have decided to increase the number of beneficiaries to be vaccinated which will further increase to the actual target of 12,000 which was decided. According to the vaccination data, 33,306 of the 48,791 HCWs have been inoculated with the first dosage of COVISHIELD or COVAXIN, which means so far 68 per cent of the beneficiaries have been vaccinated. However, the civic body has registered around 1.25 lakh of beneficiaries, of which only 33,306 have been vaccinated in the nine sessions of the vaccination drive, which means only 27 per cent of HCWs showed willingness for the mass immunisation drive.
Dr. Mangala Gomare. Executive health officer, BMC said they are in the planning stage of increasing the number of beneficiaries to 10,000 per day so that all registered HCWs should be vaccinated in the given estimated time and those who are lef t out will be inoculated at the last. “We had to decrease the number of
beneficiaries to 4,000 per day from 12,000 which was decided due to technical glitches in the Co-Win app. Following the first four sessions of vaccination, the number of HCWs were below 4,000, but now we are increasing to 10,000 so that all registered HCWs are covered in the first phase,” she said. Suresh Kakani, Additional Municipal Commissioner said
they will also increase the number of vaccination centres in the city to vaccinate 10,000 or more on a daily basis. “The additional vaccination centres will be at four more peripheral hospitals including Bhabha hospital in Kurla, the jumbo Covid-19 facilities at Dahisar, Mulund, and the jumbo facility at Richarson and Cruddas (RC) in Byculla,” he said.