Ranchi: The drive of vaccination against the Covid-19 virus came to unexpected cessation in the city on Tuesday after most session sites ran out of covishield and covaxin doses.
With most districts also run out of stock, the state drive will stop from Wednesday, health officials said.
The drive also received waves in Bokaro after all 62 session sites, except four, ran out of vaccines.
The District Health Department said the drive would remain suspended until fresh stock arrived from the state headquarters.
Bokaro Civil Surgeon Dr.
Ak Pathak said, “Of the 64 vaccination centers in all districts, only four-five who remain functional with limited shares.
Their shares are also exhausted today (Tuesday) and will remain closed from Wednesday until fresh shares arrive.” In the capital city, most sites below the limit of the Corporation Ranchi Municipal (RMC) run out of stock.
Speaking with Toi, Ranchi’s civil surgeon Dr.
Vinod Kumar said, “Forbids four vaccination sites in the workplace – Project Building, Nepal House, Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha and Jharkhand High Court – We cannot travel in most of our session sites due to lack of doses .
Dosage is allocated to us every day by the State Health Department and there is no allotment today.
Because we do not have stock now, we cannot vaccinate on Wednesday.
“According to the Ministry of Health officials, the drive was reduced to only eight sites within the urban limits of Ranchi On Tuesday with the majority of functional sites are at work and cellular vaccination vans.
As a result, the designated session site such as Ranchi District Hospital, Doranda CHC, Ima Ranchi’s office, the Red Cross building witnessed a long queue from an angry beneficiaries, who returned home without reviewing hours.
ManoRanjan Kumar, a 30-year-old Doranda resident who was in a queue at the District Hospital, “I waited here since 9 in the morning.
There was no one from the health department official who came out to tell us when we would get our dose,” Satish Kumar, an employee at Nepal House, has taken his wife and children for vaccination but must return empty-handed.
“Because it was a vaccination of workplace, I took my wife for the second dose.
However, health workers again said that due to lack of doses, only the first dose will be given to Nepal’s home employees and not their relatives,” Kumar said.
The lack of vaccines also gripped all state districts on Tuesday.
On Monday night, the state only had a little more than 82,000 doses for all 24 districts.
The next consignment of this center will arrive at 2.
“We have been told that vaccines will only be available after the Ministry of Health receives six doses of lakh covishield on July 2,” Health Officials in Lohardaga.
Although Jharkhand has been allocated 24 doses of the lakh vaccine for July, it will receive a little more than nine doses of lakh between July 1 and July 15.
However, this country activates a little more than one daily lakh receiver.
“On Tuesday night, we did not have enough vaccines to carry out the trip on Wednesday.
We have reached to the center and asks them to make direct arrangements so drive vaccination does not stop in the state,” said Siddharth Tripathy, officers about special tasks in the Ministry of Public Health , say.
Ranchi runs out of Vax, the state to closed the drive from today
