Kolkata: The majority of private hospitals in the city have not received their covid vaccine quota they have ordered and paid on the Cowin portal after the new procurement policy began to apply to 1.
While two hospitals were forced to stop vaccination this week after tiring their shares, at least the other two only Manage the second dose to make their vaccines last until fresh shipping arrives.
Most of these hospitals have conducted direct orders with producers before the procurement policy changed at the end of June.
This order was canceled and they had to do fresh orders through Cowin and are now waiting for shipping.
Fortis Hospital, which has ordered 50,000 doses for July but has not received, running out of stock on Wednesday and stopped the vaccination drive.
The three branches of the ILS hospital also ran out of vaccines.
“We have not received anything this month,” said an official.
The Amri Hospital has ordered 1.5 lakh doses for three units on the portal but did not accept anything.
“Our stock spends fast.
At present, our three units in Dhakuria, Mukundapur and Salt Lake provide 1,200-1,500 doses every day, while 300-350 doses are managed in camps outside our site.
Our stock will last a week and more We are worried, “said CEO of Rupak Barua.
Hospital Leeran has requested 7,000 doses under a new system but has not received anything.
“We paid a dose on the portal and anxiously waiting for him because our stocks dropped to only 2,000 doses.
It has forced the dose allotment and we have stopped the first dose.
Until recently, we provide 550-600 daily doses but now we have destroyed it, now we have destroyed it, “The CEO of the Peerless Hospital in Sudipta Mitra.
Shares have not yet reached the RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) since last month before the system changed.
“We put up new requests for 35,000 doses for July and have paid for the same thing.
Payments have been made for 9,500 doses in June, the refund expected immediately,” said RTIICS ZONAL HEAD R VENKATESH.
“We are currently managing with our stock around 6,000 doses of covishield and 3,000 doses of each covaxin and sputnik,” he added.
Payments made by the hospital before turning to the new system must be returned.
“We have been told that the payment we make in June – opposed us does not accept anything because the system changes – will be returned.
But it does not help except the new system takes off and we accept new doses,” said Sudipta Mitra of Tiefless.
Under the new system, each private vaccination center must apply to the Cowin portal which mentions their Covaxin and Covishield requirements.
The maximum they can order is three times their daily vaccine consumption between the 19th and 25th of the month.
Payment is made directly on the National Health Authority Portal (NHA).