Mumbai: Even when the public center rolled under the supply of erratic and inadequate vaccines, private hospitals had been able to buy doses smoothly by placing orders directly through a joint victory since last week.
Many accept shares within 3-4 days in placing orders with manufacturers, especially the Serum Institute of Pune India.
Joy Chakraborty, COO Hindu Hindu Hospital, said they managed to place through co-Win last Wednesday and received a dose within four days.
“At this point, the new system meets expectations,” he said.
Dr.
Prince Surana, CEO of Surana Group, said they ordered 40,000 doses on Friday and the vaccine was delivered on Monday morning.
“I was surprised …
before it would take weeks for a week,” he added.
Orders, however, can only be placed for covishield and covaxin through co-Win and not for sputnik yet.
The central government on June 29 released a new operating protocol for private hospitals that said they could not vaccine manufacturers directly and had to order through co-win for transparency.
The formula for the maximum number they can also launch.
The maximum will be three times the average daily consumption of one of their best performance weeks in the previous months.
Last week, senior officials from the center held an online meeting with a private hospital representative who trained them to use co-win to order.
Before that, most of the middle and smaller hospitals could not buy vaccines due to lack of access to producers.
It also caused a large group of stocks.
Some hospitals said they were still exploring the system.
Zubin Pereira, the SRCC Children’s Medical Supervisor said they had booked for vaccines and made payments.
“We are waiting for confirmation from the Serum Institute.
We hope to get delivery immediately because we have a vaccine for only a week,” he said.
Dr.
Sunil Agrawal, who heads Sanjeevani Hospital in Malad said they would place an order on Tuesday.
Hospital 100 beds struggle for weeks to buy vaccines when the hospital must contact the manufacturer directly.
Dr.
Santosh Shetty, executive director of Kokilaben Hospital, said they intend to place fresh orders within a week.
Private hospitals see extraordinarily high footsteps when public centers run out of doses, Chakraborty said.