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MUMBAI: A day after the Centre announced vaccination for all above 18 years of age, the drive remained badly hit in the city due to vaccine stockouts. On Tuesday, 49 of the city’s 129 vaccination centres remained shut due to unavailability of vaccines.
Some of the major public vaccination centres such as BKC jumbo and Mulund jumbo had to shut their gates after vaccines ran out in a few hours. Of the 49 centres that could not vaccinate, 38 were private, six BMC and five state centres. Dr Mangala Gomare, BMC executive health officer, said the city had received 1.1 lakh doses on Tuesday but these would mainly be distributed among the public centres doing free vaccination.
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MUMBAI: In the six days since senior citizens have started getting the Covid vaccine, various hospitals have literally been rolling out the red carpet for them.
If some corporate hospitals are visiting housing colonies to hold camps to help the elderly register themselves on the Co-WIN portal, others are offering cups of teas and biscuits to seniors after the shot. Wheelchairs on arrivals, no queues for super seniors over 80 years of age, and couselling are some of the other perks of being old at the vaccine centres.
At the BMC-run Mulund jumbo centre, for instance, staffers have been pooling money to buy 50 to 60 packets of biscuits and organise tea for the senior citizens. “The local Lions Clubs has now shown interest in helping us out,” said dean Dr Pradeep Angre, who walks around the huge centre with 20 vaccine booths advising recipients to take paracetamol in the evening and the need to continue wearing masks.
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