JAIPUR: As many as 75 lakh people, who have already received their first vaccine, will become eligible for the second dose in July.
The Centre, however, will provide only 65 lakh doses for the whole month.
Taking up the issue, health minister Raghu Sharma has written to Union health minister Harsh Vardhan highlighting the shortage of vaccines in the state.
“If we vaccinate all beneficiaries eligible for the second dose in July, we will not have any left for those requiring the first dose,” Sharma said.
Out of the 65 lakh doses allocated for July, over 16 lakh will be given to private hospitals.
After that, the state will be left with around 49 lakh doses in July.
A health department official said that Sharma has requested the Centre to increase the allocation of vaccine from 65 lakh to 1.5 crore next month.
Sharma also pointed out that 3.34 crore eligible people have not yet received the first dose of vaccine.
While over two crore doses were available across the country on Tuesday morning, Rajasthan has only around two lakh doses with it.
According to the Centre, over 2.14 crore (2,14,90,297) Covid vaccine doses were still available with states and UTs on Tuesday morning.
The health department has chalked out a strategy to scale up vaccination by organising worksite camps and also by conducting drives offline in rural areas.
Since the third wave of Covid is expected soon, the government has decided to ramp up the drive by providing doses to people across the state.
‘Rajasthan to face acute shortage of vaccine in July’
