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One private hospital is receiving around 1,200 calls every day from people between 18 and 44, who are seeking bookings for Covid-19 vaccine shots. Another private hospital is having 10 to 12 young persons standing in the vaccination queue, carrying their Aadhaar cards. They want to book slots for Covid jabs as soon as vaccination for all adults opens across the country on May 1, fearful that doses might run out soon. In Bengal, people between 18 and 44 will be vaccinated from May 5. Private hos...

Elderly couple whose second dose is due after April 22 asked to queue up at 4am

The state government on Thursday offered it’s facilities like stadiums, auditoriums and conference halls to big private hospitals to set up extended treatment units and satellite facilities for Covid patients. “We are offering government spaces against rent to corporate hospitals who have a minimum 250 beds, for setting up treatment facilities and satellite centres for Covid. These spaces would be available for rent for three months which can be extended upto one year,” a senior state gov...

The Telegraph has reported that Covid beds have become scarce at private hospitals and some Covid patients have to wait for days to get admitted. Peerless Hospital postponed around 80 surgeries for at least two weeks. However, there are many who have already got their mandatory pre-surgery tests done and some others have got clearances from medical insurance companies, said officials. “On Tuesday, we decided to defer around 80 surgeries. Deferring these surgeries will help us set aside more b...

No Covid beds, patients turned away in Calcutta West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission asks hospitals to add amenities A 45-year-old woman, a resident of Mukundapur off EM Bypass, tested positive for Covid on April 10, along with her husband and other family members. Her condition has been deteriorating since Thursday evening and she had to be put on oxygen support at home. Family ...

Private hospitals must further increase the Covid bed count as the number of people getting infected is increasing rapidly, senior state government officials told private healthcare units at a meeting on Wednesday. The hospitals said they would ramp up their Covid bed strength but added that increasing the count beyond a point could be difficult. The demand for non-Covid beds was equally high, officials of the hospitals said. “We have asked the hospitals to increase the number of Covid beds. ...

The state government on Wednesday asked private hospitals to give priority to Covid vaccine recipients turning up for the second jab and administer the first dose only if enough doses are available. Many private hospitals said they would stop giving the first dose from Thursday because of shortage.  Bengal received three lakh doses of Covishield and two lakh doses of Covaxin on Wednesday, but state health department officials said the stock would only last for about three days.  The governme...

Its availability at several private hospitals, as told by their officials, did not match the data on the health department’s website

Promised vaccine to last ‘a day or two’

Bengal has barely two days’ stock of Covid-19 vaccine doses and several centres in Calcutta had to suspend vaccination on Friday and a few others said they could not administer the jabs on Saturday because of the shortage. An official in the state health department said on Friday evening Bengal had about eight lakh vials of Covid vaccines left. On an average, three to four lakh vials are required across the state every day. “We were supposed to receive a consignment of vaccines from the Cen...