Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 22: The National Conference today asked the incumbent JK administration to issue global tenders to procure Covid-19 vaccines to ensure expeditious inoculation of the vaccine to the entire populace of Jammu and Kashmir before the imminent third wave of the deadly virus.
While expressing concern over the shortage of Covid vaccines across Kashmir, YNC Provincial President and former Mayor Salman Ali Sagar said that everywhere in Kashmir now vaccine seekers are being turned away from Government designated Covid care health facilities. He said the situation is affecting the first time vaccine seekers as well as the beneficiaries of the second dose as well.
“Even those people who have already registered and got the confirmation SMS are being turned away. People are leaving vaccination centers disappointed without getting a jab. Even the priority groups aren’t able to get their first and second dozes done,” he said.
Voicing against the centralized procurement of vaccine, Sagar said the states across India are flaunting separate tenders to procure the vaccines from abroad rather than waiting for and competing against each other on the quantum of quota being dispatched by the center. “State’s irrespective of whether ruled by BJP or Congress are taking this route in view of the unsteady vaccine supply from the center. I hope the incumbent JK administration will consider going global to ensure rigorous vaccination across Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
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