Express News Service
BENGALURU: After the Union Government recently announced that private hospitals should place orders on the government’s CoWIN portal for vaccine supply, the Private Hospitals and Nursing Association (PHANA) says they are still waiting for the State Government’s nod to start with the process.
After the Centre’s announcement, the State Government had asked private hospitals to register on the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) portal. Later, the hospitals were again asked to register on the CoWIN portal, but many did not get their vaccine stocks after placing orders.
Following this, officials from National Health Mission (NHM) Karnataka, had asked PHANA to wait until they conduct an online training on how to go about the process. Surprisingly, the training hasn’t been carried out so far, and many hospitals are still waiting to get the vaccine stocks to take up inoculation.