Pune: District authorities now suggest the Covid Vaccine “exchange program” volunteer which allows private hospitals to provide their excess doses to officials and get fresh vials in return.
Officials said if private hospitals agreed to participate in this program, it could begin immediately.
They said the hospital could hope to start receiving new doses from September 1.
The unit will also be given a certificate that recognizes the shares receipt.
Timesview This is a win-win situation for district administration and private hospitals.
It is also a solution that can be replicated in other cities, where private hospitals have a vaccine dose in stock but very few takers.
This will ensure the waste of valuable resources currently in short supply.
All stakeholders involved in this exchange must make sure it works.
The state government, must also quickly put guidelines and approve the plan as soon as possible.
Private pain well, because the testing on paid jabs, currently has a substantial reserve of covid vaccine (especially covishield).
Officials said the exchange program would knock on the stock that was not used and transferred it immediately to civil centers before they expired.
Private units will be given fresh stocks in return.
This is a free initiative; Private hospitals will not be charged money, officials said.
Pune Zilla Parishad CEO Ayush Prasad, who support this program, said the plan would help the area in need of a direct supply vaccine to increase coverage.
PVT Hompon can exchange excess stocks for fresh dosesprasad say, “We make original requests to the Covid Private Vaccination Center (CVCS) to provide their advantages of doses to district administration so that special vaccination drives and routine can be accelerated.
There is no money involved and it’s all about help each other.
Such transactions have been done before.
A few months ago, Pune borrowed a vaccine from the Solapur District official.
This time, it will be from a private CVC.
“Prasad estimates that private CVCs currently have more than 4.61 doses of lakh in reserves they.
This is a quantity that can prove to be very valuable for the district, which now has thousands of people quickly approaching the due date for the second jab.
Sachin Edake, District Immunization Officer with Zilla Parishad, said the details of the exchange program was being worked on and the guidelines would be immediately sought from the state government.
“We will start contacting private CVCs after we get headlights from the state government,” he said.
Health experts, said the district administration must convince personal units that this initiative will not cause loss of money.
or dose.
Sanjay Patil, Chair of the Indian Medical Medical Association Hospital, said that because this program basically involves a dose loan, a private unit may require several guarantees in return.
He said, “If the district has not received a consistent supply.
The dose, where is the guarantee that there will be good inventory in the future? If the situation continues, the purchase in a private hospital will be at risk.”