Kolkata: After managing more than 200 doses of covishield (on average) from each of the 102 covid vaccination clinics (CVC) over the past two weeks, Kolkata Municipal Corporation on Thursday decided to close these centers on Friday because The availability of shares.
It is separate, there will be no covishield shots from the vaccination centers of 50 Mega KMC, said a senior official of the Civic Body Health Department.
However, will continue to manage the covaxin dose of 39 special Covid vaccination clinics and the Roxy Cinema building used as a covaxin mega center, a civilian official said.
This was the first time since January that KMC called the covishield vaccination from his clinic.
According to a senior official, the duration of the closure of the Covishield vaccination center may be extended if the Civic body does not accept the ‘normal supply’ on Friday night.
KMC requires 30,000-35,000 doses of covishield every day to feed vaccination clinics and mega centers.
The decision to close the covishield center was taken on Thursday night after the Vials Covishield Stock came in the end at the end of the day at the Ballyggunge vaccination depot.
In fact, the vaccination centers of KMC Covishield on Thursday were hit by a lack of vaccines because the supply of the state health department had dipped, said the KMC health department official.
“We can provide 20,000 doses for our covishield vaccination center and mega centers on Thursday that is inadequate compared to the supply we have in the past two weeks.
But we have to make a decision to close the covishield center as we left without a vaccine bottle on At the end of the day and there was no guarantee from the State Health Department on supply on Friday morning, “said KMC health department official.
KMC officials interact with the State Health Department on Thursday, want to get the latest feedback about the availability of vaccines before the Civic body decided to close the covishield center for a day.
“We have no choice because the Ministry of Health officials explain that there will be no supply of covishield for the center of the KMC for Friday,” said KMC official.
However, part of the KMC Ministry of Health officials stated worried about a sudden decline in the supply of covishield with fear of backlogs when vaccination would continue.
“But this will make a backlog.
If we need to extend the closure because of the crisis, there will be no vaccinations until the beginning of next week.
It can make a big backlog once more,” said other KMC health department officials.