The state government has provided private hospitals with a list of government-run Covid vaccination centres in the city where they can send recipients of Covid vaccines who have taken their first dose at their units and are awaiting the second.
A letter sent to the heads of private Covid vaccination centres on Friday had a list of 173 government-run vaccination centres.
Thousands of people who took their first Covid shot at private hospitals are calling up the hospitals every day asking when they would get their second dose.
All private hospitals stopped Covid vaccination on May 1, the day the new vaccination policy of the Centre took effect. In the new system, private hospitals have to procure vaccine doses directly from manufacturers.
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A few years ago, fatty liver disease (FLD), wherein excess fat builds up in the liver, was considered to be a mostly benign ailment among the medical community. But that perception has undergone a “paradigm shift” in recent times, according to Dr Mahesh Goenka, director, Institute of Gastro Sciences and Liver Transplant, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata.
Dr Goenka believes that a fatty liver, which was long believed to have mild or moderate effects on health, if neglected, can lead to serious consequences in a “significant number of