Centre should give Maha one week's vaccine: Tope

April 22, 2021 00:19

The Maharashtra government needs to have one week's stock of Covid-19 vaccines at one go so that it can vaccinate up to eight lakh people on a daily basis, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope said.

Speaking to reporters, he said, "The Maharashtra government has several times urged the Centre to provide one week's stock (of vaccines) at a time to the state which would enable us to inoculate up to eight lakh people daily."

It is a huge state geographically and it takes at least two days for us to carry the vaccine stock from one corner to another, he said.

"Several letters have been sent to the Centre over it, but our demand has never been listened to. The central government's supply of vaccines is much less than our requirement, hence our pace (of vaccination) is slow," said the minister.

Tope also complained that the Centre allowed only 60 metric tonnes of liquid medical oxygen from the Bhilai plant to Maharashtra.

"Earlier, the proposal of liquid medical oxygen was of 110 metric tonnes (MT), but it was changed to 60 MT. But it would not be sufficient for the state for meeting the demand of oxygen in Vidarbha region," he said.

The state is expected to receive 200 MT each from Jamnagar refinery plant in Gujarat and a plant in Telangana.

"Now we have moved our request to Jamnagar refinery to allot additional 50 MT of oxygen," he said.

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