PUNE: The small private hospitals in the district would be given 22,500 Covishield doses.
The directorate of health services would facilitate the distribution of vaccine doses to the small private health hubs seeking less than 6,000 Covishield doses. Sanjay Deshmukh, assistant director (medical), Pune circle, told TOI, “We shall henceforth facilitate the small private hospitals’ vaccine purchase from both Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech.”
Sanjay Patil, the chairman of IMA’s Hospital Board of India, said around 15 small private hospitals would get the vaccines. “This is good news not only for the small hospitals but for the citizens as well,” he said.
Deshmukh said the civic-run vaccination sites were given 60,000 Covishield doses and 22,720 Covaxin doses on Friday. Pune rural received 25,800 Covishield doses, followed by the Pune Municipal Corporation (21,000 doses) and the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (13,200 doses).
According to CoWIN, 47,024 people were vaccinated in the district on Friday despite heavy rain. The vaccination drive would be conducted at 196 centres in the Pune civic limits on Saturday. Around 190 sites would offer Covishield and six Covaxin. Only Covaxin woul be offered at four sites in Pimpri Chinchwad.
