In the light of the recent vaccination scam, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) issued new guidelines on Thursday, July 1, for setting up Covid-19 vaccination camps at offices, housing societies.
According to the new guidelines, the housing societies and workplaces can conduct vaccination camps only through those private vaccination centres that are registered on CoWIN portal.
The civic body also released a list of nearly 95 private vaccination centres in the city registered on CoWIN portal and contact details of ward-level war rooms.
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The management at workplaces and housing societies will have to ensure that the private vaccination centres are on CoWIN by contacting the local authority, said an official.
Moreover, office and housing society managements will have to designate a person to work as a 'nodal officer' and coordinate with private vaccination centres and support vaccination activities.
The BMC had last month issued guidelines for vaccination at workplaces and housing societies, making a memorandum of understanding (MoU) mandatory with private COVID vaccination centres, but detailed roles and responsibilities were missing in it.
Now, the nodal officer will have to ensure that an MoU is signed by the secretary of the housing society and registered private vaccination centre, and the details about the date of vaccination have to be displayed on the notice board of the society, the order mentioned.
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The nodal officer will also oversee and facilitate all aspects of vaccination such as registration of beneficiaries, availability of physical and IT infrastructure and oversee vaccination etc., the guidelines further stated.
It will be the responsibility of the nodal officer of private vaccination centres to ensure that all beneficiaries get a link to digital certificates. Besides, the health department team will also conduct random surprise visits to vaccination sites, as per the directive.
In addition, housing societies will have to inform their respective medical officer and local police station about the organised vaccination camps at least three days prior.
The Mumbai police have registered 10 FIRs so far after a racket that held bogus vaccination camps for housing societies and private firms came to light last month. After the police managed to grab the key accused, Rajesh Pandey, the number of arrests has reached 12.
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