John Wilbert & Saurabh Singh
Port Blair, Aug 28: As A&N Administration is on a massive publicity drive urging people to get Covid-19 booster dose within 31st August 2022, large number of people today gathered outside various vaccine centres but to their utter dismay they found shortage of vaccine doses in many vaccine centres and finally they had to return home with vaccine dose.
When Andaman Sheekha Daily spoke to the people who came for the vaccination, they said that recently everyone has received phone calls from District Administration, urging people to take Booster Dose before 31st August 2022 and also there is a massive publicity drive in this regard but on Sunday when most of the people are free, there was a shortage of vaccine at Port Blair.
When Andaman Sheekha Daily contacted a senior officer of Health Department he said that on 28th August 2022 a stock of 60,000 doses was received from Kolkata and special delivery vans were also provided to deliver the vaccines to the centres further the vaccination centres were directed to plan the schedule accordingly.
But, he added that some vaccination centres were closed before the vaccine delivery and moreover, the head of the vaccination centre and staff couldn’t be contacted by any means and the delivery staff were not able to deliver the vaccinations on time.
