Kolkata: Many vaccination camps outside the location were held by a private hospital on Monday after the new SOP for an outreach camp was enforced.
But the hospital hopes to come up with the camps proposed in one or two days after the process of implementing simplified new guidelines.
Previously, private hospitals could start camps outside the site after the vaccination site was made on co-win by state health officials who shared login IDs and passwords with them.
But now the health department mandates that each camp will be examined by a team from the Ministry of Health before the trip begins.
In addition, the approval letter from the department needs to be displayed in the camp along with the CO-WIN condenication code.
“Fourteen camps outside the location planned by three units of Amri and AMC Southern Avenue have been postponed because we were told that camps outside the site run by a private hospital could only be continued only after the team from Swasthya Bhawan examined the sites and.
issued a formal approval letter, “said an official at Amri Hospital Group.
However, the Ministry of Health allows three vaccination camps outside the ongoing location by the Hospital group in the Acropolis, South City and East Diagnostics.
“The three off-site vaccination centers we have been postponed for now.
We hope we can start operating the camps within a few days because we need to speed up the drive,” said Medica Group of Hospital Chairson Alok Roy.
Because the soup came out late at night on Saturday night, the hospital had communicated with the committee they had tied and told them about these suspended camps.
“We only plan a camp outside the site for Monday.
Because of government guidelines, we have delayed this.
Hopefully the process will be streamlined in one or two days,” said R Venkatesh, regional director (east) Narayana Health.
“We are a little worried about two-day outreach camps in Haldia, which starts on Sunday.
Fortunately, the Ministry of Health allows us to continue on Monday,” said Pradip Tondon, Belle Vue Clinic CEO.