Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 2: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference today expressed concern over the unavailability of vaccines across Government designated vaccine centres in Kashmir and asked the Administration to ramp up the capacity to keep up with the spread of the infection.
This was stated by the Party’s additional general secretary Dr Sheikh Mustafa Kamaal, while voicing concern over the shortage of required COVID-19 vaccine at all vaccination centres across Kashmir.
Kamaal said the claims of the Administration on the availability of drugs have fallen flat. “Of late people had started to turn over for vaccination but the chaos following the unavailability of vaccines at vaccination centres is discouraging,” Dr Kamaal said, adding that various State Governments have issued advisories in wake of the vaccine shortfall asking the public to not visit vaccination centres until the fresh consignments of the vaccines arrive and that the resumption of vaccination drive will start after stocking up of adequate vaccines but unfortunately, the J&K Govt fails to do so.
He stated that the people visiting hospitals for a vaccine jab are being asked to come after two days. This he said has become a daily norm at all designated vaccine centres, with people flocking to such centres only to return without getting a jab.
“The administration should simply ask the people to stay home until the vaccine stocks are restocked,” he suggested.
Denouncing the hyper campaign and shoddy propaganda of the Administration on creating more bedded facilities for patients, Dr Kamaal said, “People are being made to wait to get beds for their loved ones gasping for breaths which debunk the claims of the Administration.”
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