Kolkata: Even when Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has received a portion of the Lakh Covid vaccine dose from the State Health Department, the allocation is very inadequate for the Civic body to clean the second dose backlog that continues to soar.
The Covid vaccination clinic operated by KMC faces Herculean’s duties with daily funds for the second dose up two and a half times from 20,000 days two weeks ago to 50,000 on Wednesday.
To overcome this situation, the Civic Health Department has decided to only offer the second dose in 30 clinics where the due date for the second jab has passed more than 500 people at each center.
The official of the Civilian Health Office said the figure was set to get more inclined in the coming days because of the continuation of incompatibility in the demand and supply of cross-vaccine center vaccines in the city.
“We need to give a second jab to more than 50,000 people on Wednesday but considering the allocation, we can vaccinate around 11,000.
Thus, 39,000 fat will remain there.
15,000 strange people who will get the second dose on Thursday will be added to this.
People These people have completed 84 days since taking the first vaccine shot, “explained a KMC health official.
While the situation can still be managed now, officials say pendencies need to be cleaned before the number increases.
Around May, KMC gradually increases the daily vaccination target of 10,000 per day to 15,000 and then 20,000.
At the end of June, he had given a vaccine to 62,000 people in one day, followed by 50,000 the next day.
“We need a type of allocation carried out in the last half of June to remove fat.
At that time, there are days when a clinic will receive 500-600 doses in a day.
Now, it has been reduced to 100 doses at 30-odd CVCS where Pendency is more than 500 and 50 doses in the CVCS where the pendency is below 300, “said an official.
The civil health official posted on CVCS said the situation was very embarrassing with senior citizens who reached the clinic just to learn there was no sufficient vaccine.
“Because inventory is not enough, we cannot commit to dating the second dose.
Just justified, they get anxious because vaccination in a private CVC is also on a decrease due to low stock.
The situation needs to be handled quickly,” said an official at CVC.