NASHIK: More than a month since registration for vaccinating people, 41 out of 42 private vaccination centres have not received even a single vaccine despite greater demand for the same in rural areas.
These hospitals are keen to be part of the vaccination drive so that greater number of beneficiaries can get the vaccine and also ease the pressure on government vaccination centres. But they are not being made vaccines available even through the private pharma agencies.
Owner of one such private hospital in Sinnar, Dr Mahesh Khairnar, said his hospital has been getting queries from many beneficiaries about the availability of the vaccine on a daily basis.
“We contacted both the vaccine producers with our orders through the respective modes and fulfilling all the conditions. Naturally we are ready to make payments as well. But the problem is that we were told that we could get the vaccine from the local pharma agencies,” he said.
Deputy district collector Ganesh Misal, who is incident commander for vaccines, admitted that the hospitals were yet to get the vaccines.
