Kolkata: Bengal Head Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding more vaccines for Bengal.
He said that countries like UP – Bjprun stated getting more vaccines.
“I have no doubt about it, but why should Bengal be taken away.
Because only because they lose a poll in Bengal?” CM writes for 14 doses of crore vaccines for everyone above 18 years can get Jab.
However, he wants that the vaccine must be sent quickly before the third wave as in it even children may be affected according to experts.
In his letter, he wrote: “The West Bengal government has given the top priority in Covid-19 vaccination in circumstances and all exit efforts are given to ensure maximum coverage with minimum waste.” This is the third letter for PM from the tip of Bengal CM after he took over for the third time in a row in May.
“The country has begun vaccinated from January 16, 2021 and to date, we have provided 2.5 doses of crore from vaccination (with 1.81 crore doses 1 and 0.70 crore as the second dose of vaccination) against the supply of 2.12 doses Crore from the Indian government, 18 lakh obtained by the state and balanced governments by the private sector.
“” At present, we provide around 3 doses of vaccines every day in our country and become very difficult to maintain this level because of irregular supply.
Having a capacity that we can vaccinate more than 10 lakh people every day, provided a sufficient number of vaccines available.
“” According to our assessment, the state requires around 11.5 crore more doses of Covid-19 vaccine to discuss everyone in the qualified category And go with the current supply rate, it might take a longer period before everyone is closed.
” CM said that there was a waste of vaccines in Bengal and Bengal was the top player of the vaccination point as it had 2.5 crores that had managed 1.8 crore received a single dose while 7 lakh got both doses.
“In accordance with intimacy received from the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, the Government of India, the state has been allocated 73 Doses of Lakh Vaccine Covid-19 for July, 2021.
But unfortunately, 25 lakhs doses are only accepted to date on the date of the month now.
Therefore, We will sincerely ask you to provide instructions needed so that the supply of Covid-19 vaccination to our country has increased according to our needs mentioned above, to facilitate vaccination most of the country’s population before the 3rd wave.
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