Still no guidelines on vaccinations of senior citizens: BMC

A doctor is vaccinated at Nair Hospital on Monday. Pic/Suresh Karkera

The central government announced that the vaccination drive for senior citizens will commence next month. However, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is still waiting for their guidelines on these vaccinations of more than 30 lakh senior citizens.

There are 1.7 lakh health care workers and 1.9 lakh frontline workers registered with the BMC. But the BMC doesn't have any fool proof data of the senior citizens. Contacting senior citizens and asking them to register on the CoWin app will be a tough job. "We are waiting for the guidelines from the centre. Maybe they will ask us to carry the drive as per the voters' ID. But we have some online data available which we collected through the ‘My Family, My Responsibility' drive," said Suresh Kakani, additional commissioner of the BMC.

On Tuesday, the corporation received a lukewarm response from the beneficiaries. Out of 9,225 expected health care and front line workers, only 6,310 received the vaccination. Until now 89,194 workers have got the vaccine and no one has reported serious health issues.

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No. of senior citizens to be vaccinated in the city