Chandpur Correspondent: Dhaka, Sept-01,
The Chandpur Civil Surgeon's Office has temporarily suspended the Covid vaccination drive at District Sadar Hospital due to an acute shortage of jabs.
There is a vaccine
crisis in the entire district as the number of registrations is more than the
available stock, the chief medical officers of various upazila health complexes
told the media.
People from different
parts of Chandpur Sadar who came to the vaccination centre of the state-run
hospital Tuesday, returned disappointed after a long wait.
Among them were
70-year-old Afia Khatun, who came from the Laxmipur area of Sadar, Hasina
Begum, 45, of the Mahamaya area of Sadar upazila, and Biplob Saha of Puran
Bazar and his wife.
Besides, the stock of
vaccines has run out in Kachua, Faridganj, Hajiganj, Matlab South and Matlab
North. And so the registration for jabs has been suspended at the upazila
health complexes in these areas.
Dr Belayet Hossain of
Haimchar Upazila Health Complex, said that their stock of vaccines is also
running out. The situation is the same in Shahrashti.
He told the media that
due to the shortage of jabs, vaccination has been halted in the entire
district. "Of course, it is temporary," the doctor added.
Civil Surgeon Dr M
Sakhawatullah said there is more registration for vaccines than the available
stock of the Covid jabs, "and hence the shortage".
"Hopefully we'll
receive more vaccine doses by Saturday. Then the inoculation of the first and
second doses will start again."
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