Vaccine shortage hits Ludhiana hard

Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, April 27

Due to a shortage of stock, Covid vaccination was carried at only at three government vaccination centres — Civil Hospital, Civil Surgeon office and Urban Primary Health Centre — today.

As many as 2,949 persons were inoculated in the district today.

Beneficiaries visiting government and private vaccination centres had to return without getting the jab and are told to wait for the stock to arrive. Private hospitals have also been out of the vaccine stock for the past few days.

Jagtar Singh, who got his first jab from a private hospital, said he had been making rounds of the hospital as his second jab was due for the past four days but he was informed that the vaccine was unavailable each time he visited the hospital. “Being a senior citizen, it is difficult to make rounds of the hospital every day,” he said.

District Immunisation Officer Dr Puneet Juneja said they had received 28,000 doses of Covishield in the evening today and would start the vaccination at more sites from tomorrow. “We will be distributing the doses to private and government hospitals as per the stock availability,” he said.