The Centre determine of 33.95 per cent wastage is “old data”, Jharkhand mentioned immediately.
Ranchi:
Terming the vaccine wastage determine of Jharkhand by the Centre at 33.95 per cent as “old data”, the
Hemant Soren authorities Thursday mentioned it has acquired permission from the central ministry to rectify the associated information and the vaccine wastage was 1.5 per cent within the state.
The efforts made by the state authorities together with rising the tempo of inoculation has resulted in wastage of vaccine to 1.5 per cent from earlier 4.5 per cent, it mentioned. As per the centre’s information Kerala and West Bengal recorded unfavorable wastage of COVID-19 vaccines in May, saving 1.10 lakh and 1.61 lakh doses respectively, whereas Jharkhand reported most wastage of 33.95 per cent.
“We have already raised the issue with the centre during several rounds of video-conferencing. The 33.95 per cent wastage data is old one. The union ministry has given us permission to rectify the data on the portal.
“The permission has been acquired by us solely immediately and accordingly, we’ll rectify it because the wastage has come to 1.5 per cent,” Jharkhand nodal officer for vaccination A Dodde told news agency PTI.
Mr Dodde said the process for correction was on.
As per the vaccine data from National Health Mission Jharkhand, in a short span of two weeks between May 26 and June 8 almost 6 lakh new vaccine doses were administered across the state.
The vaccine coverage in Jharkhand was 40.12 lakh doses on May 26 which increased to 46.07 lakh doses on June 8 morning, as per the state government.
“Till twenty sixth May, web vaccine availability on the state authorities was 42,07,128 doses, out of this 40,12,142 doses have been administered whereas on June eighth, web vaccine availability was 46,76,990, out of this 46,07,189 doses have been administered to the folks.
“This resulted in bringing wastage down to 1.5% per cent from earlier 4.5% per cent,” Jharkhand govenrment had mentioned on Wednesday.
