Pvt Hosp: Dosage 25L / month Zycov-D Needles

Pune: ZYCOV-D, the first vaccine to be approved for use in children over the age of 12 in India, will also be available for private sector hospitals throughout the country.
The central supply principle in the ratio of 75:25 for public and private vaccination will still apply to this vaccine too.
“If there are buyers, up to 25 lakh doses of Zycov-D will be available for private school hospitals every month because the availability of the initial monthly vaccine will be 1 dose of crore,” NK Arora, chief downtown Covid-19 who worked the group of national technical advisory groups Immunization (Ntagi) to TOI on Sunday.
However, 75% of available doses will be reserved for adolescent vaccination that qualifies in public vaccination centers for free, Arora clarifies.
Zycov-d vaccine-free needles, which are produced by Zydus Cadila based in Ahmedabad, have received authorization of emergency use to be given to children.
Three dose vaccines must be provided with a gap of 28 days between each dose.
Zycov-D will be introduced in the Covid Country Vaccination Program on October 20.
“The biggest challenge about this vaccine is the slow production.
Initially, the manufacturer can only provide one dose of crore every month.
Private hospitals can get 25% of monthly production,” Arora said.
However, he added that the private sector did not show much interest in the purchase of vaccines after the new guideline on the supply of the Covid-19 vaccine in the ratio of 75:25 came into force several months ago.
Dhananjay Kelar, Medical Director of Pune’s Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, said, “Private hospitals will buy Zycov-D vaccines, but this time they will be careful in their approach.
Initially, purchases tend to be smaller to assess the response.
Again , the cost of vaccines in private hospitals will also determine its absorption.
“Sanjay Lalwani, Medical Director of the Bharati Hospital in Pune, said that” the purchase of a private Zycov-D vaccine is likely to be slow.
This is a vaccine of three doses, therefore vaccination costs tend to be high possible Also the negative impact of purchases in the private sector.
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