Mumbai: With BMC Hamstrung with a shortage of vaccine stocks, have started talks with private hospitals who seek help to expand Covid-19imunization coverage.
Support City Commissioner Suresh Kakani said they had held talks with 2-3 private hospitals who said they had adequate doses and expressed willingness to vaccinate the residents of slums.
“We are still working on modality.
We may collect information about those who are waiting for vaccinated from environmental offices and distributing them with the hospital, or private hospitals can operate slum centers around the slums,” Kakani said.
He said even private hospitals did not have many doses, but some had several thousand additional doses that they were willing to share under the CSR initiative.
The Civic body cannot resist the drive for at least five days of this month, while it must cut it on several other days due to lack of doses.
A list of people who have qualified for the second dose, but cannot get it longer.
The city has provided a dose of 67.25lakh so far, but only 16LAH people who have been fully vaccinated.
The city has an adult population estimate of 93lakh which qualifies for vaccination.
On Saturday also, less than 70 of the 309 city centers can vaccinate.
Kakani said that they had received 48,000 doses that would help continue the drive on Monday.
On Sundays, only private hospitals carry out vaccinations, where 13,077 received Jab.
Throughout Maharashtra less than 1.12lakh people took vaccines on Sunday.
Some districts affected by floods such as Ratnagiri did not see any vaccination.