Chennai: Senior citizens of Chennai and suburbs complain that there are many mixes on booster shots.
T Sadagopan, 62, lived in Avadi, got a message that he had successfully vaccinated on Friday night.
When Sadagopan entered the Cowin portal, he found a vaccine certificate for the dose of preventive measures he did not get.
“I don’t know how it might be without me sharing my cellphone number, one time password (OTP) or Aadhaar.
So, when I called the primary health center nurse, he advised me to ignore my text and asked me to come.
In the middle I want to be vaccinated, “he said.
Commissioner Municipal Avadi R Saraswathi is not available to comment.
However, the Secretary of State Health J Radhakrishnan said that he would direct the authorities concerned to see this problem.
M Somasundaram, who got his booster shot at PHC at Anna Nagaron on Thursday, said the co-win portal showed that two booster doses were given for the registered cellphone number.
“Even if an additional dose is recorded in each of the 5,000 vaccination centers in Chennai, it will give us the wrong projection.
When I asked, the authority of the larger Chennai Corporation said that they would show extra doses as a waste,” he said.
K Baskar, an activist from Thiruvallur, said the authorities only quoted the server’s problem for these shortcomings.
Mix-up like it’s common even when people take their second dose; Some took Jab three times to get their certificate, he said.