Even as the Maharashtra remains the worst impacted state by the second wave of Coronavirus, the state government has stated that it is facing shortage of Coronavirus vaccines and may possibly have to have to halt the vaccination course of action if the new stocks do not show up. The state has estimated that its existing stock of about 15.7 lakh doses will final only for 3 days, reported. The overall health division officials from the state have maintained that they have to have at least the stock of 40 lakh vaccine doses to meet its everyday target of 4.5 lakh vaccinations. The officials have also stated that repeated requests have also been produced to the Union to provide the needed vaccines to the state in the final 10 days.
Health Secretary Dr Pradeep Vyas was quoted as saying that the centre has stated that the new supplies could only come by April 15 and the delay in the arrival of vaccines could force the state government to quit the vaccination course of action for a couple of days. State Health Minister Rajesh Tope echoed the officials and stated that the stare can’t afford to slow down the vaccination course of action and stated that the state would at some point like to raise its everyday vaccination target from the present 4 lakh doses a day to 6 lakh doses per day.
With the Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Wardhan terming Maharashtra’s demand baseless, the officials told that state Health Minister Rajesh Tope will also challenge a formal statement today countering Wardhan’s criticism. An official also stated that in spite of being the state with the biggest population, Uttar Pradesh has accomplished far much less vaccination than the state of Maharashtra. Another senior Maharashtra government official told that the centre had not estimated the everyday vaccination numbers to rise so rapid. It is pertinent to state that by March 21, India had sent more than 6 crore doses of vaccine to 76 nations whereas it had only made use of 4.6 crore domestically. The total quantity of doses which have been consumed domestically given that March 21 has risen to 8.7 crore.
As per report, some regions of the state like Aurangabad, Nandurbar, Gadchiroli and rural regions nevertheless had adequate stocks as the turnout of folks at vaccination centres is poor in rural locations. On the other hand, in urban locations of the state like Navi Mumbai, Thane, Mumbai, Nashik, Satara, the stock of vaccines is about to get more than in a day or two.