According to the latest reports, vaccinations for pregnant women in Mumbai will start from Monday in public centres.
This comes a day after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) authorities said that they are yet to chalk out a plan to inoculate pregnant women in the city and select centres that would be earmarked for them.
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There are approximately one lakh pregnant women in the city. However, the response from lactating mothers, whose numbers are the same, the response for vaccines has been low. Even after one and a half months, only 3,463 of these women have been administered the jab.
The Centre has also prepared operational guidelines, a counselling kit for medical officers and frontline workers and information material for people to read and understand the risks and benefits.
As per the latest guidelines from the central government, vaccinations for pregnant women will be rolled out in the state on Monday. The training for health workers for the same is organized where they will monitor the women for the next 20 days after vaccination. Health workers are expected to tell the benefits as well as side effects of the vaccines to these women and they need to take extra care if they have comorbidities, said Gomare.
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Both the public and private vaccination centres immunised a total of 90,532 people on Wednesday, July 7. At least 58,311 vaccines have been administered at public centres and 32,221 vaccines were given at private centres.
Of these, 48,268 were given to people between 18 and 44 years. At least 27,332 were given at civic-run centres, 1,467 were administered by government centres and 19,469 were given by private centres.
While 10,150 vaccines were given to senior citizens and 30,287 were given to those between 45 and 59 years.
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