The administration in Tamil Nadu s Tiruppur district has ordered an enquiry into allegations that around 800 doses of vaccine meant for Primary Health Centres (PHCs) were diverted and sold to private garment factories.
Coimbatore: A controversy broke out on Wednesday based on Tirupur corporation’s decision to administer around 800 doses of Covaxin, initially allotted to four urban primary health centres, to employees of three garment factories’ instead.
There were media reports of the civic body taking away vaccines meant for the public and selling them to private garment factories.
However, the district administration denied the accusation. District collector K Vijaykarthikeyan said he had ordered a probe into the complaint of “vaccines being sold” to garment factories by the deputy director of health services, Dr Jegadeesh.
“After enquiries, we have learned that the corporation had scheduled institutional vaccination for three garment factories on Saturday, in which there is no wrongdoing. Especially because reopened factories, which were earlier sources for Covid-19 clusters, are high-risk sectors,” he said.
The administration in Tamil Nadu s Tiruppur district has ordered an enquiry into allegations that around 800 doses of vaccine meant for Primary Health Centres (PHCs) were diverted and sold to private garment factories.The Tiruppur District .
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COIMBATORE: A controversy broke out after the Tirupur Corporation administered around 800 doses of Covaxin to employees of three garment factories. The stock was initially allotted to four urban primary health centres (UPHCs). There were media reports of the civic body taking away vaccines meant for the public and selling it to private garment factories.
However, the health department and the corporation denied the accusation. Health officers said it was the corporation’s prerogative on who they decide to vaccinate first. Officials said garment factories were Covid-19 clusters once. It is a high-risk sector and thus their employees must be vaccinated on priority, according to them.