Kolkata: Even as a queue for the second dose of vaccine which was suddenly extended at the end of August has be thinned at a private hospital this week, a civil clinic has seen a steady wave of the number of recipients with the second dose recipient exceed the ratio of the first dosage with a ratio of 60:40.
In the past 10 days, the second dose request has followed the first, a KMC official said.
According to a KMC medical officer in a ginger clinic, the demand for the second dose has slowed slowly but continues in the last three weeks.
“Even a month ago, we will order 30% of the total allocation for the second dose recipient.
Witnessing a surge in the number of second-dose recipients in the last 10 days, we have decided to allocate the Lion part of our vaccine to the second dose recipient,” said a KMC official .
Some private hospitals, on the other hand, have seen the number of recipients down to one third of what it was two weeks ago.
With two large consignments that arrived recently and the civil centers analyzed a large number, the crowd had subsided quickly, said hospital officials.
According to a KMC official, while Civic Brass has sent 250 covishield doses every day to the vaccination clinic (on average), the mega covishield centers receive 500 doses (average) every day.
At Peerless Hospital, which will analyzen around 600 a day in the last week of August, only 189 vaccinated on Wednesday.
“Surge has been requested by the fact that most of the 45-plus receivers have a second shot because at the end of August.
After the initial crowding, many choose to visit the KMC center that has sufficient doses,” said CEO Nearless Sudipta Mitra.
Belle Vue Clinic has seen the recipient’s number down to 200-250 from more than 600 to early September.
At Amri Hospitals, there was a sharp decline of 50% last week.
While last week, the three Amri units provided 1,200 doses a day, down to 600 on Thursday.
“A large number of second-dose recipients have moved to the Civic clinic.
With sufficient vaccines in the store, the latter has been functioning very efficiently, helping to take the burden of private hospitals.
But we have enough stock,” said CEO Amri Rupak Barua.
The number of recipients has fallen at the CMRI hospital too.
“We started most recipients of the second dose,” said CK Birla Hospitals Coo Simmardeep Gill.
However, in several hospitals, the request continued.
Woodlands, for example, has seen a daily rise in vaccination from 350 in August last week to 500 now.
At the RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, also, daily vaccination remains stable at 500-550 since late August.
“This is similar to last week with the second dose recipient more than the first,” said RTIICS ZONAL HEAD R VENKATESH.