Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has started planning for increasing the Covid-19 vaccination centres from existing 98 to 150-200 after the central government resumes inoculation of people in the 18-44 age group.
NMC additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi told TOI, “Vaccination In Your Locality is underway for last three weeks.
We have identified few sites as permanent vaccination centres.
When it resumes, vaccination of 18-44 age group will be free of cost in centres of NMC and government hospitals.
We plan to increase the number of centres to cover maximum people in a day and prevent crowding.” The number of beneficiaries has further dropped at Kingsway Hospital which is the only private centre in Nagpur division where paid inoculation is going on for all people above 18 years.
The numbers had started declining since centre’s announcement to resume free of cost vaccination of people in 18-44 age group from June 21.
As per data provided by Kingsway Hospital, daily vaccination was around 1,700 in the first six days.
It came down to 340 on June 9, 159 on June 10 and 160 on June 11.
After centre permitted vaccination of 18-44 age group, the state started inoculation with limited centres in the district.
The state stopped it on May 12 citing shortage of doses.
The centre had allowed private hospitals to procure doses directly from manufacturers and inoculate anyone from 18-plus.
The number of beneficiaries at government centres in the district has dropped below 5,000 for last few days as not many among healthcare workers (HCW), frontline workers (FLW) and 45-plus are reportedly eligible for inoculation.
The number has further declined to 3,361 on Saturday.
These beneficiaries include HCW, FLW, 45-plus who took first and second dose and those from 18-44 age group who took second dose.
As on June 11, 13,49,034 doses have been administered in the district.
Of the 66,870 HCWs who had taken first dose, 43,914 have also turned up for second dose so far.
When it comes to FLWs, 1,30,844 took first dose while 40,364 also had the booster shot.
Highest 8,24,201 doses have been given in 45-plus age group.
In this age group, 2,00,287 beneficiaries have also taken the second dose.
In the age group of 18-44 years, 35,947 had their first dose while 6,607 are fully vaccinated.