Healthcare workers are not getting alerts on time, people dropping into their own institutes cannot find their names on the lists
MUMBAI: People implementing the drive are facing unique problems, then why is it so centralised, questioned Dr Subhash Salunkhe, advisor to state government on Covid-19 and former Director General of Health Services (Maharashtra).
“It is heartening to learn that vaccination numbers in the state have started to pick up, but the mammoth drive could have been better executed from the start. Why should a drive of this scale be so heavily centralised? States like Maharashtra, where over two million children are vaccinated annually, have enormous experience and expertise. Strategizing, therefore, should have been left to the state machinery. It seems like a few bureaucrats in Delhi are trying to decide for the entire country whereas those implementing on the ground are grappling with unique problems. An IT-based platform (Co-Win) is being used to implement the drive, but it has been riddled with hiccups. Healthcare workers are not getting alerts on time, people dropping into their own institutes cannot find their names on the lists. There is a lot of confusion on the ground".