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Gujarat has gained 1 billion vaccines, yet we only have 1. 04 lakhs of vaccine doses.
According to the Centre’s latest vaccine order, Maharashtra has gained 7. 5 lakh vaccine doses, while Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, etc. , have gained far more vaccines than Maharashtra.
Solapur Police Commissioner Tejaswi Satpute Gets Tested for Covid
Solapur Police Commissioner Tejaswi Satpute was tested for Covid and had recently received the first dose of the Covid vaccine.
Milk bag drops 30% due to restrictions
Milk sales in Maharashtra have fallen by 25% to 30% from a daily average of 1. 2 lakh crore to 86 to 90 lakh liters since lockdown-type restrictions came into force, according to rough estimates by the Maharashtra Milk Producers and Processors Association. indicated. Merchants have reduced their milk purchases due to restrictions on market operations, concerns about waste, and a dwindling visitor base. Retailers promoting milk on open markets have also not resumed sales after the restrictions. If major markets are closed, there will be an impact,” Prakash Kutwal, secretary of the Maharashtra Milk Producers and Processors Association, told TOI.
Labor shortages to curb vaccination in Chakan region MIDC
Labor shortages at the Karanjvihare Primary Health Center (PHC) in Khed tehsil are likely to hamper the vaccination crusade in the Chakan commercial area, health officials said. Currently, the PHC has only six vaccinators covering 34 villages. “We need more manpower if we are going to vaccinate workers working in Chakan industries,” said Dr. Jayshree Mahajan, director of the PHC. On Wednesday, the CHP was unable to vaccinate its workers because it did not have enough vaccine doses. Dr BB Gadve, head of Tehsil fitness, said: “We have already sought 25 doctors and 30 nurses for the Covid ward. District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh admitted that there was a shortage of vaccines in the district on Wednesday.
The state suffers from a severe shortage of oxygen in less than a week.
More than 61% of Maharashtra’s intensive care beds are currently occupied, while 34% of the 9,000 ventilators available for Covid patients are in service, state data revealed. In parts of districts such as Nagpur, Aurangabad, Khalgaon, Latur and Yavatmal, 90 to one hundred percent of beds are already occupied. CM Uddhav Thackeray said on Wednesday that the solution to curbing the spread is to stick to Covid criteria, as there are limits to which medical infrastructure can be increased. Maharashtra is also facing a severe shortage of oxygen. shortage in less than a week. Chief Health Secretary Dr. Pradeep Vyas said on Wednesday that the daily intake exceeds 850 metric tons (MT), compared to the state’s daily production capacity of 1,150 tons. “We told the Center that we could just use all the oxygen we produce in a week. We will have to borrow from other states,” he said.
Patients’ families struggle to get antiviral drugs
Vedwati Petkar visited several hospitals in the city on Tuesday but failed to get the much-needed six doses of remdesivir, an antiviral drug, for his mother. “My mother is admitted to a hospital in Katraj. I queued for 4 hours in front of the Pune District Chemists Association in Shukrawar Peth hoping to get injections. I spent two days looking for the medicine,” said Petkar. Large hospitals are struggling to get the vials in Pune. FDA officials clarified that retail pharmacies were not allowed to buy and sell the drug. S B Patil, Joint Commissioner (Drugs), FDA, Pune, said: “Only hospitals and their pharmacies can download remdesivir by contacting distributors. Therefore, there is no need for patients’ family members to unload the medication.
Small and Medium-Sized Hospitals Face Remdesivir Shortage
Small and medium-sized personal hospitals treating Covid patients in the city are running out of sources of remdesivir and are now scrambling to get it because “the FDA has not taught the population” about the correct strategies for obtaining the drug. Under the state government’s dictate, hospitals offering Covid-19 treatment and their adjacent medical outlets will unload the drug intravenously, either directly from the pharmaceutical company or through notified drug distributors.
In home isolation? You may want to ask for a deposit of Rs 25,000.
Covid-19 patients who opt for home quarantine will soon have to meet all isolation criteria or pay a fine of Rs 25,000. Legal experts and activists have criticized the Pune civic body’s resolution, saying it would do more harm than alleviate the pandemic. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is contemplating making such dedication/guarantee mandatory.
Nearly 40,000 PRM in 24 hours
Daily Covid-19 tests in the Pune Metropolitan Area (PMR) rose on Wednesday to about 40,000, the highest point so far, while daily cases rose to 10,907 in the last 24 hours, up from 10,226 on Tuesday. of another 39,939 people were tested for Covid infection in the PRM region, adding 26,120 tests within Pune’s municipal barriers alone. In addition, as many as 7,832 patients have been discharged from PRM in the last 24 hours, for an overall discharge of more than 5. 09 lakh.
An inventory of doses of 12 to thirteen lakh now lasts 3 days: Cap
The state’s health minister, Rajesh Tope, said the state is trying to receive 40 lakh vaccine doses per week to reach the desired goal of vaccinating about 6 lakh people each day. The state was recently vaccinating 4. 5 lakh people every day, and therefore a stockpile of 12 to 13 lakh doses would last for three days. “We have accepted the challenge set to us by Union Minister Prakash Javdekar: to step up testing and vaccinate 6 lakh people per day. But the Center is now adapting its source speed to our vaccination speed,” Tope said.
Dozens of beneficiaries were left out after several centers ran out of vaccines
The district government will now have to wait a few more days to vaccinate one million people again. On Wednesday, a severe shortage of doses forced many vaccination centers in the region to cancel their sessions ahead of schedule. In Satara, the government had to suspend all vaccinations due to shortages. In a subsequent press release, Satara zilla parish said campaigns would resume once it had a sufficient inventory of doses. So far, about 2. 56 lakh people have been vaccinated in Satara.