Local trains to resume in Mumbai from 15 August for fully vaccinated people; BMC to utilise 10 lakh doses lying with private hospitals

Mumbai Local Trains: The Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has announced that Mumbai local train services will start from August 15, 2021, for the fully vaccinated people. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is taking an initiative to vaccinate its population so that Mumbai citizens are vaccinated with both the doses and do not face any difficulty in travelling in the local trains. The initiative by BMC is expected to aid private hospitals and to ensure full vaccination of its citizens.

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Additional BMC Commissioner Suresh Kakani has informed Zee Business reporter Ekta Suri that both doses of the vaccine are necessary if anyone wants to travel by local train. 

In Mumbai, the vaccine is available at government and BMC vaccine centres all day, he said. He further said that there is a fear among the private hospitals over the likelihood of 1 million doses getting expired even before being administered. BMC will now reach out to the private hospitals to ensure that these does are administered to the Mumbai citizens.

Since the central government changed the vaccine policy and made the dose of the vaccine free for all, people have been reluctant to get the vaccine done by spending money in a private hospital, the BMC Additional Commissioner added . As a result, 10 lakh vaccine doses of private hospitals in Mumbai may soon expire. He said that BMC is planning to use the same doses to vaccinate people.

Kakani further informed that in Mumbai, 5.6 million people have taken the first dose of the vaccine and the second is awaited, but the vaccination centers of the BMC are currently facing a shortage of vaccine doses.

Kakani also said that companies like Jaslok, HN Reliance,  CIPLA are helping BMC to deal with the vaccine doses. 

He said that many NGOs are also helping BMC in this. In the coming days, 60 per cent of the stock in government and BMC vaccination centres will be available for the second dose and 40 per cent for the first dose.