Nagpur: A 72-year-old man from Shivaji Nagar took Covid-19 vaccine 18 days ago. However, the Co-Win website says he is yet to be vaccinated or even scheduled for inoculation.
Advocate Pruthu Abhyankar told TOI, “I registered for vaccination of my father Anand at AIIMS using my mobile number. I took him and also got him inoculated on March 5. I am yet to get a message about vaccination of my father done till date. Certificate is a distance dream.”
Abhyankar added the status on website of Co-Win should have been ‘vaccinated’, but still it is displaying as ‘scheduled’. “I contacted AIIMS and complained about faulty status on website and also about not receiving message. I also sent two emails on March 13 and 14. Representatives at AIIMS are saying there was nothing to worry and there will be no problems in taking second dose,” he said.
Abhyankar said, “I am worried about his second dose. Co-Win application at any other centre will also show that my father was not vaccinated. Also, how will we prove which vaccine he took in first dose when we have nothing in hand.”
He had ensured vaccination of his mother and in-laws at centres situated in private hospitals. “I did not want to take any more risk so preferred private centres for other family members. We were given print out of certificates while in 30-minute observation at private centres,” he said.
Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi said he will talk to officials at AIIMS and also raise the issue with the centre at Mumbai.
TOI had on March 14 reported about problems of another senior citizen who took the jab at Police Hospital but received certificate showing vaccine taken at a centre in New Delhi. He had taken Covishield but certificate showed he took Covaxin. The civic body had raised the issue with the centre at Mumbai and is yet to get any reply and problem stands unsolved till date.
Few senior citizens and comorbid who took the jab on first two days, March 1 and 2, also received messages but are yet to get certificates. Many of the beneficiaries received messages and also certificates from third day.
NMC on Tuesday received 15,000 doses of Covishield from the office of deputy director of health services (DDHS), which received 77,000 doses from the government on Monday.
NMC chief medical officer Dr Sanjay Chilkar said, “Now, we have around 40,000 doses of Covishield. DDHS assured more doses soon and there would be no interruption in vaccination programme. Stock of Covaxin doses is sufficient,” he said.
Vaccination in the city declined to 6,577 doses on Tuesday.