KOLKATA: The state health department has issued an SOP to tighten the vigil on off-site vaccination centres following the busting of a fake camp at Kasba in south Kolkata.
The chief medical health officer (CMHO) of Kolkata Municipal Corporation has been directed to monitor all vaccination sites in the city.
Also, all vaccination centres of private hospitals holding offsite camps have to submit a joint application along with the organisation it has tied up with to the state health department.
“The location, date, time, source of vaccine and its type has to be mentioned in the application,” stated the SOP issued on Saturday.
Local clubs/organisations and corporate houses that wish to host vaccination camps with a private hospital will have to apply to the district family welfare officer with a copy of the agreement letter between the two parties.
For districts, the application has to be made to the CMOH.
An officer will then visit the proposed site and submit the report, based on which the district family welfare officer (DFWO) or CMOH will grant permission for the off-site CVC.
Thereafter, permission has to be sought from the local police station and the approval letters displayed at the CVC along with the CoWin authenticated code for the site.
Private CVCs will also have to explain how the vials will be transported from their cold chain points to the camp site.
While the drive has to be conducted through the Co-Win portal, CVCs have also been asked to use the state government’s recently launched Covid vaccination related app (CVR) for better management at the site.
“At the end of the session, a performance report has to be submitted to the local health authority,” the SOP stated.
While a private hospital CVC of one district can tie up with a local CVC or an organisation in another district to hold camps, both parties have to jointly submit an application to the state family welfare officer in Kolkata and CMHO elsewhere.
Till now, only the hospital needed to apply for permission.
Once the nod comes through, Swasthya Bhawan will create the vaccination site on CoWin and share the login ID and password with the private CVC so that entries of those vaccinated can be made in the portal and vaccine certificates can be issued.
Private CVCs have been asked to mandatorily assign a nodal officer who will be the point of contact between the CVC and the health department.
They must maintain a dynamic inventory of vaccine disclosing the source, mechanism for maintaining clod chain, daily consumption and report this via a Google spreadsheet.
Private CVCs must also submit a list of people who have completed the second dose during the week by every Sunday and a lost of those who failed to take their second dose on due time.
The private CVCs have also been told to cooperate in case of a visit by health officials to inspect the CVC.
In case of non-compliance the department will revoke the permission to run the CVC.