Mumbai: The center has revised the formula to calculate the maximum number of vaccines that can be done by private hospitals in a month, a week after completing it.
This new plan will allow private players to buy a slightly higher volume than previously decided.
The center has improved the volume of vaccines that can be purchased with private hospitals by introducing ‘maximum order quantity’ (MOQ) for each facility.
Previously, it was decided that the MOQ of the hospital would double the average daily consumption of one of their best weeks from the previous months.
However, the limit has increased to three times the average consumption, officials were confirmed on Wednesday.
The decision was communicated to private hospitals throughout the country through a series of online meetings on Wednesday.
Central officials told private centers that they could start booking through Cowin from the next few days in four installments or at once.
Private hospitals should place vaccine orders from July 1 through Cowin, but they have not been able to do it.
This center has developed two criteria to decide on the MOQ.
First, for hospitals that have been vaccinated since the last few months, the performance of one of the best weeks they will be taken as benchma-rk to get their MOQ.
Second, for newer centers, their bed capacity will be used as a criterion.
Hospitals with less than 50 beds can order up to 3,000 doses in 51-300 hospitals can order 6,000 doses, 301-500 beds in hospitals can buy up to 10,000 doses and hospitals with more than 500 beds can order 15,000 doses.
It has also been clarified that vaccine shipments can occur both from direct producers or through state or corporate shipping channels.
A head of a private hospital told TII if they chose to send through the state government or city company, a hospital could put a minimum order of 160 covaxin doses and 500 doses of covishield.
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