Mumbai: Several vaccination centres across Mumbai including a jumbo COVID-19 facility in business district BKC, suspended inoculation on Friday morning due to a shortage of doses, BMC sources said.
According to the reports the remaining centres are likely to suspend the vaccination drive by afternoon or evening as the available stock is fast depleting.
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However, Mumbai is expected to get up to 1.80 lakh fresh doses of Covid-19 vaccines by evening, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) executive health officer Mangala Gomare told news agency PTI.
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“From Day 1 we used to get vaccines before a day as buffer stock, till yesterday we got a sufficient number of vials for this centre. Last night, we were expecting to get today’s dose, but it has not come. Now, we have only 160 doses,” Rajesh Dere, Dean of the BKC Jumbo vaccination centre, said on Friday.
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The new stock will be sufficient only for the next 2-3 days as Mumbai vaccinates around 55,000-60,000 people on an average every day, authorities said.
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Thursday expressed concerns that due to the shortage of doses, the vaccination processes would come to halt at all inoculation centres in Mumbai from today.
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The BMC had yesterday said that it had suspended vaccination drives at 25 centres in private hospitals due to a shortage of doses.
(With Agency Inputs)
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