The health department has to call teams from districts to come and collect vaccine doses from Jaipur and Udaipur on a daily basis. Due to this, the supply is made up to the community health centre level daily.
The state has received 2.1 lakh doses on August 1, 1.8 lakh doses on August 2, 3.3 lakh doses on August 3, 52,000 doses on August 4, 2.89 lakh doses on August 5 and 3.26 lakh doses on August 6.
“So far current availability is concerned, we can supply 25,000 doses to bigger districts and 8,000-15,000 to smaller districts daily. We have a capacity of providing 15 lakh doses in the state,” said Siddharth Mahajan, secretary (health) in Covid-19 review meeting headed by chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday.
However, he pointed out that Rajasthan had received more doses than allocated by the Centre for July. In July, the allocation of doses was 48,90,170, but the state government had received 77,04,200 doses.
Besides, in August, the Centre has made allocation of 53,07,780 doses and out of those13,94,140 have already been received in first six days of the months, which are 26.2% of the doses allocated for August.
According to the schedule send by the Centre for supplying of the vaccines to the state for August, the first supply of the doses was scheduled on August 7. But, the Centre has sent the doses in small quantities daily in the first six days of the month. Since the state government is receiving vaccines in smaller quantities, the officials are unable to inform the people, if they will be able to vaccinate the people next day, which is another problem which the officials are facing due to supply of doses in smaller quantities.
Besides, issue has also been raised by Gehlot of low turnout at private hospitals vaccination centres.
