As the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials low turnout of healthcare workers for the inoculation process, it has claimed the technical glitches in Co-WIN responsible for the same. However, the BMC on January 21, has decided to allow 'walk in' vaccination for the registered healthcare workers (HCW).
On the third day of COVID-19 inoculation drive in the city, the civic body managed to administer vaccines to just 52 per cent of the targeted 3,300 healthcare workers on Wednesday, January 2, due to glitches in Co-WIN software application.
According to data, the highest number — 362 HCWs – were vaccinated at KEM Hospital, followed by 306 at Babasaheb Ambedkar, 262 at Rajawadi Hospital, 155 at Bhabha, 154 at BYL Nair, 149 at RN Cooper, 135 at LTMG (Sion), 133 at BKC jumbo, 57 at VN Desai and 15 at JJ Hospital. While on the third day in a row, the least number of vaccine doses were administrated at JJ Hospital.
As a result, the BMC has now decided to allow the registered healthcare workers to "walk in" and take vaccine doses, even though they are not listed for a particular day.
The BMC health authorities also called more people than the scheduled number to ensure that even if a few failed to turn up, the daily target of 4,000 could be met. The BMC made an appeal to the state government on Monday, January 18, to allow walk-in appointments and call more than the scheduled numbers. The state government accepted the request.
The civic body officials said that due to technical glitches, they were unable to get the details of the 4,000 registered health care workers, whom they want to schedule for the next day of vaccination, and unable to send them SMS through the system.
Moreover, on Saturday, January 16, when the nationwide inoculation drive was launched, the civic body had suspended the process for two days due to the same reason related to Co-WIN.
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