BMC to set up vaccination centre in Cooper hospital
A separate building opposite hospital canteen with separate entrance has been earmarked as a vaccination centre. December 21, 2020 10:51:07 pm
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will set up an ideal vaccination centre in Dr RN Cooper hospital, whose model will then be replicated in other places.
A separate building opposite hospital canteen with separate entrance has been earmarked as a vaccination centre. Members of Mumbai Task Force said the Cooper centre will have a waiting room to register, immunisation room and an attached ward to observe participants for half an hour. To monitor them, a special team of ICU specialists, nurses, and specialists like cardiologists, nephrologists, respiratory medicine specialists will b
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MUMBAI: The city s 1.25 lakh healthcare workers will be administered a Covid-19 vaccine at eight centres in a span of 15-20 days, the BMC said after the first meeting of the vaccine task force was held on Friday. Preliminary plans are to vaccinate a minimum of 10,000 health personnel every day, with each centre working in two shifts.
Maharashtra has informed the Centre that it has the capacity to store 3 crore vaccine doses in cold storage, National Health Mission commissioner N Ramaswami told TOI. Till Friday, the state had uploaded data of nearly 1.91 lakh healthcare workers on the government application, CoWin, for priority vaccination.