JAIPUR: The health department has developed facilities for vaccinating 15 lakh doses daily to scale up vaccination.
In video conferencing with Centre’s cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba, chief secretary Niranjan Arya on Thursday informed about developing facilities for vaccinating 15 lakh doses daily. Recently, health minister Raghu Sharma had written to Union health minister Harsh Vardhan demanding increase in doses allocated for the state in July from 65 lakh doses to 1.5 crore doses.
Keeping in mind the possibility of emergence of third wave, Arya informed Gauba that the state is able to vaccinate only 3.25 lakh doses on the basis of the availability of vaccine doses now. The state has sufficient storage capacity for vaccines. The state government has appealed to the Centre for continuous supply of vaccine as due to lack of which the drive gets interrupted.
In video conferencing with Centre’s cabinet secretary Rajiv Gauba, chief secretary Niranjan Arya on Thursday informed about developing facilities for vaccinating 15 lakh doses daily. Recently, health minister Raghu Sharma had written to Union health minister Harsh Vardhan demanding increase in doses allocated for the state in July from 65 lakh doses to 1.5 crore doses.
Keeping in mind the possibility of emergence of third wave, Arya informed Gauba that the state is able to vaccinate only 3.25 lakh doses on the basis of the availability of vaccine doses now. The state has sufficient storage capacity for vaccines. The state government has appealed to the Centre for continuous supply of vaccine as due to lack of which the drive gets interrupted.
