KOLKATA: More than 2,500 people are getting vaccinated daily at private and public health centres in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation area on an average. The process will now be scaled up from April 1 with all above 45 becoming eligible for the jab.
Civic health department officials said that the free Covid vaccination drive is going on at about 10 civic body-run health centres, including the three civic body-run hospitals in Salt Lake Matri Sadan Hospital in EE block, Deshbandhunagar Hospital in Narayanpur and Vidyasagar Matri Sadan Hospital in Rajarhat.
Civic officials said the centres have been witnessing a daily average of around 80 senior citizens who arrive for the vaccine as a majority of Salt Lake’s elderly residents are preferring to visit the private hospitals and healthcare centres in the township.
NKDA authorities are strengthening infrastructure at the two vaccination centres in that area.