New Delhi: Health Minister Union Harsh Vardhan on Thursday urged opposition leaders to quit “shameless encouragement to play politics” in the midst of a pandemic.
In a series of tweets, the Health Minister Uni accused several leaders made “irresponsible statements” about Covid-19 vaccination drives.
“I see irresponsible statements from various leaders regarding the biggest vaccination drive.
State the facts so that people can assess the intention of these leaders,” UNI Health Minister said.
He urged these leaders to spend “more energy in planning and not in creating panic”.
“If these leaders are aware of these facts and still make such statements, I consider it the most unfortunate.
If they don’t know, they need to focus on governance,” said Minister of Union.
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Harsh Vardhan (@Drharshvardhan) 1625125889000Harsh Vardhan’s Outburst comes in the middle of claiming that they don’t have Enough vaccine to continue with the drive inoculation.
The UNI Health Minister also announced that a total of 12 crore doses will be available in July.
Equipment to a private hospital will end and above, he said.
Vardhan said that the countries were informed 15 days earlier about vaccine equipment for July.
Even details of everyday supplies are distributed with America, the Minister said.
If these leaders are aware of these facts and still give such a statement, I consider it the most unfortunate.
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Harsh Vardhan (@Drharshvardhan) 1625125891000He blamed the countries for problems in pushing vaccinations.
“If there is a problem in the state, it shows that they need to plan their vaccination drive better.
Intra-state planning and logistics are the responsibility of the countries,” said Minister.
The ministerial claims apart from several countries claim that the lack of vaccines has affected their inoculation drive.
Odisha stopped the vaccination drive at 16 Districsodisha forced to stop vaccination drives in 16 districts because of the ‘deficiency’ dose of covishield.
Inoculation exercises are suspended during the day at Angul, Bolangeir, Ballasore, Bargarh, Bhadrak, Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Jajpur and Jharsuguda.
There is no drive of Covid-19 vaccination conducted in Kandhamal, Kendrapara, Coraput, Nabarangpur, Sonepur and Sundargarh, according to an official.
The state has only 19,520 covishield doses and 3,24,910 bottles of Covaxin until this morning, the official said.
The government cannot carry out immunization programs in 11 districts on Wednesday due to the scarcity of the dose of covishield, he said.
Assam failed to reach 30 inoculation targets of lakh because the short supply of the Government of Assam LED Vaccinesbjp can vaccinate only 16.63 lakh people in the last 10 days, almost 45 percent less than the main target of Himanta Minister Buswa Sarma to analyzen 30 lakh people.
A senior health official said this was due to the lack of massive Covid-19 vaccine.
The minister’s chairman said that from June 21, Assam would target three vaccination lakh every day until June 30.
However, in accordance with the Daily Covid-19 bulletin issued by the National Health Mission under the Public Health Department, a total of 16,63,405 people inoculated in all states from June 21 to June 30.
This figure is far below the ambitious 30-lakh target set during the CM meeting with all district stakeholders on June 19.
The government can touch the daily target of three lakh vaccines.
Only on two days – June 21 (3,30,667 jab) and June 23 (3,60,315 jab).
‘Jharkhand faces the lack of covid vaccine’ Jharkhand the government also claims that it faces a lack of covid-19 vaccine.
On June 29, an official of the State Health Department said that the states remained only with Covid-19 vaccine stocks one day.
“Jharkhand was abandoned with 82652 bottle vaccines that were sufficient enough for today.
Until now, there was no vaccine for tomorrow.
We are talking to the central government.
Hopefully we get some information about this with the afternoon,” Siddharth Tripathi, Senior Nodal Officials Information , Education and Communication (IEC) The Ministry of Health has said on Tuesday.
(With input from PTI)