Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) stopping Covid-19 vaccination of healthcare workers (HCWs) and frontline workers (FLWs) at 10 private hospitals, after administering first dose there, has left many baffled and inconvenienced.
Moreover, some of the beneficiaries who had received the first dose in private hospital could not get the second dose at the vaccinations centres being run in NMC and government hospitals on Monday.
The NMC was running vaccination programme at 20 centres of which 10 were in private and 10 in NMC and government hospitals.
A large number of HCWs and FLWs took the first dose in vaccine centres in private hospitals. These hospitals were administering the second dose till February 26.
Gynaecologist Dr Lata Meghrajani told TOI, “I had got the first dose at OCHRI’s centre. When I visited OCHRI for the second dose on Monday, I was told to go to NMC hospital. Employees at the NMC’s Pachpaoli Women’s Hospital did not respond when I requested for the jab. They also behaved very arrogantly.”
“I have informed about this to Indian Medical Association. I am now confused over the second dose,” she said.
General surgeon Dr Dhananjay Kane said, “Two HCWs from my hospital had gone to NMC’s Indira Gandhi Rugnalaya at 2.30pm. The employees there asked the two to visit tomorrow.”
NMC’s additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi said, “The government had instructed us to stop vaccination at private hospitals and we complied. Vaccination will continue at NMC and government hospitals till further orders.”