The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has barred private hospitals based out of Mumbai from holding vaccination camps for corporates or housing societies within city limits.
Chahal said even if a hospital parks its ambulance at a camp, in case of an adverse event, it will have to travel back to the hospital in another district. This will beat the purpose of quick AEFI management, he stated.
Issuing fresh orders, the BMC chief Iqbal Singh Chahal on Monday, June 14, said that private hospitals have been warned against publicising names of political parties or politicians during private immunisations drives.
This directive comes in the wake of several politicians organising vaccination camps and even facilitating the same for large housing societies.
The vaccination drive must not be politicised, Chahal said, therefore show-cause notice will be served to errant private centre asking why their permission to give the jab should not be cancelled.
Moreover, the BMC has received reports that some politicians have helped organise vaccination camps and put up their banners at the campsite even when the entire exercise is paid for by the recipient getting the jab.
In addition, the new circular mentioned that private hospitals have been directed to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a corporate office or housing society and register with BMC before each vaccination drive.
Earlier, BMC’s detailed guidelines issued in the first week of May had also stated that private centres must have an anaphylaxis kit for management of AEFI and a basic life support ambulance for shifting beneficiaries if required.
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