Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has urged the central authorities to allow states to develop their ownapplications for COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has urged the central authorities to allow states to develop their ownapplications for COVID-19 vaccination programme.
In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Thackeray stated the vaccination drive in Maharashtra has been the “fastest and the most efficient in the country”. At current, individuals have to register their names on CoWIN platform launched by the central authorities for the vaccination.
“As we plan to open up vaccination for the 18 to 45 age group through the state’s procurement, the CoWIN app is seeing a sudden surge in the number of citizens wanting to register nationally. There is fear about the app malfunctioning and crashing as it did on the first day of registration of the age group,” he stated.
“We propose either a separate app developed by states, where the data can be shared with the Union government’s ministry of health or a CoWIN app for each state, developed and assigned by the government of India,” he stated.
This would guarantee higher interface and expertise for residents who’re actually eager to take the vaccine shot, the chief minister added. Thackeray wrote that the vaccine provide was additionally a significant problem.
“If potential, the state is keen to procure the requisite inventory of vaccines in a single procurement. However, the producers don’t have sufficient shares.
If the states are allowed to procure vaccines from different producers as nicely, a big inhabitants can be lined in a shorter time and assist cut back the influence of a potential third wave,” the CM siad.
He additionally requested that the ICMR could set the medical framework for the FDAs of every state, inside which numerous vaccines out there to the world could also be procured to struggle COVID-19.
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