Covid vaccine shortage in Yavatmal, urban centres shut

Yavatmal: There district is facing shortage of Covid-19 vaccine. As the turnout of beneficiaries has gradually increased. the stock was exhausted on Thursday, forcing the administration to pull down the shutters of its urban centres.
District collector Amol Yedge confirmed that the urban centres were closed for want of vaccine. “It may come probably on Friday,” he said.
“Initially, the turnout was only 3,000 per day.Now it is 10-12,000 per day,” he said adding that as soon as the vaccines arrive, the centres would start providing it to the people.
The collector further said that earlier there was shortage of medicines (Remdesivir) which was later rectified. “Now, there is no shortage of necessary medicines,” he said.
At the government medical college (GMC) here there is no adequate class IV workforce to serve patients. A Covid-19 patient told TOI that his engineer brother had to lift the urine bag from the bedside to show it to the doctor to note the quantity.
A few days ago, the MCI group had visited the GMC but left without noticing the staff crunch. TOI tried to contact the dean Dr Milind Kamble but his phone was not reachable.