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The state government is considering taking the Covid-19 vaccination drive to big housing complexes and corporate houses so that more people can be inoculated against the disease that is spreading much faster than it did at the peak of the epidemic last year.
The state health department on Monday met representatives of several private hospitals to discuss how off-site vaccination could be done in Calcutta.
Till now in Bengal, Covid-19 vaccines are given only at designated hospitals and clinics, including those run by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and other civic bodies.
Private hospitals as well as the health department are flooded with requests from big residential complexes and corporate houses to conduct vaccination on their premises.
Search Corporate houses and welfare associations of housing complexes make jab bookings Hospitals decide to approach companies with whom they have agreements on hospitalisation and routine check-ups for vaccination
Corporate houses and welfare associations of housing complexes are approaching private hospitals to vaccinate their employees and residents who are 45 or above against Covid-19.
From Thursday, anyone aged 45 or above can get a Covid shot. Till Wednesday, senior citizens and people between 45 and 59 with comorbidities were eligible for vaccine doses.
Hospitals, too, have decided to approach the companies with whom they have agreements on hospitalisation and routine check-ups for vaccination.
Hospital officials feel the need for a structured approach to inoculation as the Centre’s decision on people aged 45 or above has created a bigger target population for vaccination.