To control the corona-19 in India, a rapid Covid-19 Immunization campaign is being run. The government has made an important change in the Covid vaccination campaign issued by the central government of India. Under this, from July 1, private hospitals can no longer buy covid-19 vaccines directly from the vaccine manufacturer. He will now have to order the coronavirus vaccine on India’s Covid-19 Vaccine app ‘Covin’. Not only this, the central government has also decided to fix the limit of monthly stock of vaccine.
An SOP i.e. Standard Operating Procedure document has reached Mumbai hospitals on Tuesday, according to which private hospitals will get only double the dose of the average vaccine consumed daily in a particular week last month. However, private hospitals will have the flexibility to choose the week of their choice to calculate the daily average for the vaccine. Its information will be taken from the Covin portal.
For example, if a private immunization center selected the week 10-16 to place an order for July, during which 630 doses were given, the average daily dose for that hospital would be 90 (630/7 = 90). This way a private hospital can order a maximum of 5,400 doses (90 x 30 x 2 = 5,400) for July. The SOP states that the maximum limit of one month may be revised in the second fortnight depending on the consumption of the vaccine during the first 15 days.
According to the SOP from the central government of India, as well as for those hospitals who are planning to participate in the vaccination campaign and do not already have a record of covid-19 vaccine consumption. The vaccine ceiling will be decided based on the number of beds available to them. A 50-bed hospital can order a maximum of 3,000 doses, while a 50-300-bed hospital can order up to 6,000 doses and a 300-bed hospital can order up to 10,000 doses.
The SOP states that private immunization centers can order the vaccine in four installments in a month. No approval will be required from any government authority for the purchase of corona vaccine. It will be enough just to successfully place the purchase order on Covin. Once the demand is submitted, Covin will aggregate the district and state-wise numbers before delivering them to the manufacturers. Private centers will have to pay for the vaccine on the National Health Authority portal. Earlier the rule was that private hospitals could buy 25 per cent of the vaccine directly from the manufacturers and 75 per cent was shared by the centre.