At Belle Vue, 50 persons were administered the doses on Monday. Of them, 11 had walked in without prior registration, said officials.
“We have nine laptops dedicated to helping people get themselves registered. It is done on a first-come-first-served basis,” said Pradip Tondon, CEO, Belle Vue Clinic.
At Medica Superspecialty Hospital, 150 people from the general public were administered Covid shots. Of them, more than 100 went to the hospital for spot registration, said officials.
Six employees were posted at the registration help-desk, while three to four others were moving around, helping people fill in the forms. “Because of frequent glitches in the Co-Win 2 portal, it was taking 20 to 25 minutes on an average for a registration,” said an official of Medica.
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On Day One of the expanded national vaccination programme that kicked-off on Monday for citizens above 60 years and those over 45 with co-morbidities, there was no evidence of the vaccine hesitancy th
Hundreds of elderly people in and around Calcutta waited for hours on Tuesday for a Covid-19 vaccine shot and many went back without getting one because of glitches in the registration portal and other technical problems.
Several private hospitals, including those that are planning to start vaccinating senior citizens and those above 45 with comorbidities on Wednesday, said they would record the personal details of a recipient and administer the shot if the technical problems persist.
They will later upload the details on the Co-Win2 app when it will function without glitches.
“The portal’s issues were not resolved and it was not functioning properly throughout the day. Session sites could not be created according to the plan. Because of that the vaccination programme suffered today, too,” said a health department official.
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