Nagpur: With the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) roping in 9 private hospitals, the number of vaccination centres in the city will go up from 8 to 19 from Wednesday. Existing eight centres are either in NMC or government-run hospitals.
NMC additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi told TOI that the new centres were inspected and found to be satisfactory. “Three centres were added on Monday,” he said.
Joshi added that the private hospitals will have to vaccinate health care workers from other hospitals after administering their own staff. “A couple of private hospitals were left out as they were not ready to meet the stipulation,” he said.
While the scheduling will by done by the NMC, the vaccine will be administered by the staff of the private hospitals. A dry run was conducted earlier.
The civic body had started vaccination of doctors, nurses and technicians of private hospitals from January 21. But they were covered under on-the-spot vaccination drive and had to travel to NMC’s Pachpaoli and Daga Hospitals.
Following state permission for five days, NMC will hold the vaccination drive on all days barring Tuesdays and Sundays from this week.
Meanwhile, the number of health care workers in the city registered for vaccination has increased in the city from 22,500 to 27,600. Some private hospitals are sending in late registrations.
With the second lot of doses arriving in the next couple of days, the NMC officials said doses will be sufficient to meet the increased number.
NEW VAX CENTRES
Private hospitals | Orange City, Kingsway, Wockhardt, CIIMS, Kunal, Dande, Kubde, Jafri and Bhavani
Govt hospitals | Employees State Insurance Corporation and Shri Ayurvedic College