Take Covid-19 vaccination to doorstep and delink centres: Hospitals

Hospitals feel that the government needs to authorise more sites and utilise existing capacities better.

With the current Covid vaccination drive aimed at covering senior citizens and those with comorbidities gaining pace as more people have started showing confidence in the process after shrugging aside the initial hesitancy, hospitals and civic bodies seek authorisation of more sites. They want vaccination sites delinked from advanced medical facilities.
 
Mumbai’s civic body, for instance, plans to take vaccination to the doorstep, as it sets an ambitious target of covering 3 million people in the next 30 days. Right now, vaccination centres need to have trained personnel who can identify and take action in case of an anaphylactic