More dedicated Covaxin sites needed across Pune Metropolitan Region

PUNE: The Pune circle’s health services department has sought more dedicated sites to offer the Covaxin jab across the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR).
According to Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director (medical), Pune circle, the region has only one dedicated Covaxin site at District Hospital Aundh at present.
“We need more dedicated Covaxin sites to avoid any confusion among beneficiaries and speed up the vaccination process. Generally, depending on the stocks, vaccination centres are changed across the civic limits. Dedicated sites would be helpful for beneficiaries to get vaccinated,” he said.
Sanjay Patil, chairman, IMA’s hospital board of India, too said that the number of vaccination centres offering Covaxin changes from just two to twenty. If civic bodies could provide centres across the prominent points of PMR, it could really prove helpful for the vaccination drive as well as to beneficiaries, said Patil.
A PMC official said that they are trying to keep the current six vaccination sites steady.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, as per data from the CoWIN platform, around 28,708 beneficiaries were vaccinated across 75 government-run and 70 private sites in the district.
Covishield out of stock for PMC, PCMC, only Covaxin drive to be held on Monday
PMC and PCMC have run out of Covishield doses so only Covaxin shots will be administered on Monday across the civic-run vaccination centres. PMC has allotted six vaccination sites, while PCMC has assigned around 16 centres for the doses. Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director (medical), said that the administration is expecting fresh stock on Monday or Tuesday.