The Punjab government on Friday withdrew its decision to sell Covid vaccine doses to private hospitals for people aged 18 to 44.
The Punjab government on Friday withdrew its decision to sell Covid-19 vaccines to private hospitals. (Photo: file)
The Punjab government on Friday withdrew its decision to provide one-time limited Covid-19 vaccine doses to people aged 18 to 44 in private hospitals because it was “not taken in the right spirit”.
The government has ordered private hospitals to return all vaccine doses they have available. In addition, used doses must also be returned as soon as the private hospitals are supplied directly by the vaccine manufacturers.
The amount paid into the vaccine fund by the private hospitals will be reimbursed to them, according to the government order.
Earlier on Friday, Punjab Minister of Health BS Sidhu said he would open an investigation and will personally investigate allegations that the Punjab government is making a profit from the Covid vaccination campaign.
LETTER FROM CONGRESS MP BAJWA
On Friday, Congressman Rajya Sabha Partap Singh Bajwa wrote a letter to Punjab Prime Minister Captain Amarinder Singh requesting an investigation into the sale of 40,000 doses of Covaxin to private hospitals at more than 1,000 rupees per dose. “This policy is absolutely inappropriate right in the middle of the second wave,” he wrote.
My letter to CM Punjab @capt_amarinder ji regarding the sale of 40,000 COVAXIN vaccines to private hospitals. pic.twitter.com/YwbGrTTa2s
– Partap Singh Bajwa (@Partap_Sbajwa) June 4, 2021
The congressman pointed out that there is a shortage of vaccines across the country.
“Given the small number of people being vaccinated across the country, the state government should have focused on using these doses to vaccinate the masses, by trying to sell over a third of the doses received to private hospitals to benefit, The government of Punjab has de facto failed its duty to the people of Punjab, ”he wrote.
He claimed that the state government made a profit of Rs 2.64.00,000 on these sales.
Bajwa also said that action should be taken against the “architects of this callous policy”.
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