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Updated: The percentage of coverage was 65% on Saturday and 58% on Sunday Share Article AAA Nursing officers prepare themselves for massive coronavirus vaccination drive, in Bengaluru on January 15, 2021. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar The percentage of coverage was 65% on Saturday and 58% on Sunday The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is hoping to complete vaccination of all healthcare workers registered in the first phase in a week. A total of 1.82 lakh healthcare workers have been registered to be vaccinated in the first phase. However, the percentage of coverage was 65% on Saturday and 58% on Sunday. Speaking to reporters after inspecting vaccination sites at Manipal Hospital on Sunday, BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad said that, on Monday, vaccinations will be taken up in the civic body’s 141 PHCs (primary health centres), 106 private hospitals and nine medical colleges in the city.
State government plans to usher in PPP model in healthcare SECTIONS Share Synopsis “There are no government medical colleges in about 10 districts. To begin with, we want to let private healthcare investors establish and run medical colleges in these districts and use our existing district public hospitals as teaching centres to their colleges,” health and medical education minister K Sudhakar told ET. Health and medical education minister K Sudhakar. BENGALURU: Karnataka has planned to bring in public-private-partnership in healthcare by allowing private players to invest in district government medical colleges and hospitals, in the backdrop of the state reeling under fiscal stress.
Will India's VIP culture disrupt the vaccination programme? SECTIONS Share Synopsis For a society that loves to wear its privilege on its sleeve, the question now is whether getting the Covid vaccine long before your neighbour will become the new status symbol. Will those who paste stickers such as “chairman”, “vice-chairman”, “MLA” and “ex-MLA” on their personal vehicles wait for their turn to come? Agencies Anant Bhan, a bioethics and global health researcher, cautions: “If people see that you can use jugaad to get this done, that will impact trust in the vaccination process itself.” In the early days of the pandemic, reams were being written about how Covid-19 was the great equaliser. Here was something the rich could not insulate themselves from; in fact, the well-heeled globetrotter was more likely to be a carrier than anyone else. Everyone had to jolly well hunker down at home and, for the first time, there did not seem to be as wide a gulf between you and the influencer you were following on Instagram.