Vaccinations fall in Belagavi as stocks end

After 1.8 lakh doses of the COVID-19 vaccination had been administered in two days, the vaccinations in Belagavi fell to 27,000 on Wednesday.

People got here face-to-face with ‘No stock’ boards in many of the 500 vaccination factors in the district. Those who had registered on the Co-Win portal had been additionally dissatisfied as clinics and hospitals reported shortage of the vaccine.

Several complained on social media, tagging Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and Health Minister K. Sudhakar.

One individual, Manoj Kumar, complained that his brother bought a false message of vaccination regardless of not getting one. He couldn’t get the shot regardless of reserving it on the Vantmuri main well being centre.

“He had booked online, but when he went to the centre, he was told there was no vaccination today. But there was a notice that those who booked an online slot would get vaccination that day only. Later he got a message that he had been successfully vaccinated. This (is) totally (a) vaccination scam they are doing,” he alleged.

Another individual, P.R. Mirajkar, accused politicians of diverting vaccines away from PHCs to their vaccine mela centres. “I don’t know how politicians are getting vaccines when government hospitals are not getting them,” he mentioned.

It was the identical story in every single place. Supreet Bhandari mentioned that he had gone to a PHC twice and was informed that there have been no vaccines. Vijay Patil mentioned {that a} nurse and ASHAs at a PHC requested him to return again on Saturday as they didn’t have vaccine.

Another individual, Vinayak Desai, suspected there was one thing amiss in the vaccination drive and urged Deputy Commissioner M.G. Hiremath and Govind Karjol, district in-charge Minister, to take motion in opposition to politicians, who might have brought about the confusion.

Another individual, Shirin, mentioned she had gone to a PHC in Srinagar 4 instances in a day, however needed to return empty-handed. Mr. Hiremath mentioned the district had exhausted its inventory of vaccines and mentioned contemporary stocks had been anticipated on Thursday. “We will make sure that we will reach the target of vaccinations in the given time schedule,” he mentioned.