Days after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) gave a green signal to conduct door-to-door vaccination at societies and workplaces, Goregaon’s Gokhuldham Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Officers Quarters became the first housing society in the city to have doorstep vaccination in collaboration with a private covid vaccination centre (PCVC).
On Friday, May 21, as many as 400 residents were administered Covaxin shots by doctors and staff from Fortis Hospital.
BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani told TOI that the civic body was intimated, and the vaccination was carried out through the PCVC.
This is going to be the way forward as and when vaccine stocks become available. Housing societies and corporates can tie up with PCVCs and get their staff and residents vaccinated, he added.
BJP MLA Mihir Kotecha who helped the society get connected to Fortis and got clearances from the BMC said that once more vaccines are available, more societies will be able to get doorstep vaccination.
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Meanwhile, a day later, on Saturday, May 22, another housing society in Mulund carried out the 'doorstep' vaccination drive in its premises. The Golden Willow society in Mulund west became the second society in the city to carry out the vaccination drive under the doorstep scheme. The vaccination was carried out by the Fortis Hospital and around 200 residents were vaccinated during the drive.
Earlier this month, the civic body had issued a detailed guideline, permitting housing societies and workplaces (private) to tie up with private hospitals/ Covid vaccination centres (PCVC) to hold these drives on their premises, subject to the availability of stocks.
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