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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.