Top private sector healthcare body urges scaling up Covid vaccination drive

Wants private diagnostics labs, home care providers as part of inoculation process; calls for setting up vaccination centres in RWAs, malls, schools, airports, and large companies with space and staff

Apex body representing private healthcare sector NATHEALTH-Healthcare Federation of India has called for scaling up the Covid-19 vaccination drive by including private diagnostics labs and home care providers in the inoculation process.

In a set of recommendations made to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and NITI Aayog on urgent need for such a scale up, NATHEALTH has also called for setting up of vaccination centres in RWAs, malls, schools, airports, and large corporations with space and staff facilities.

The industry body is of the view that these steps will not only accelerate vaccination numbers at the community level but will