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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. We also asked them to open satellite facilities,” health secretary Narayan Swaroop Nigam said. Off...

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 government on Wednesday held a meeting with private healthcare institutes and told them that their priority ...

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 Centre on Friday but it didn’t come. Officials in Delhi were unable to tell us when the next consignm...