Senior citizens face ordeal as vaccine centres run out of shots

Pune: Many senior citizens who registered online and made their way to the designated vaccination centre on Friday failed to get their shots owing to shortage of vaccines.

Those scheduled to get the vaccines were disappointed at having to face an ordeal even after registering for their doses online.

Ujjwal Chadda (69) said, “I went with two of my friends, who are also senior citizens, to take the second dose at Late Dashrath Baliram Bhangire Dispensary at Mohammad Wari. After waiting in the queue for one-and-a-half hours, we were told that the dispensary had run out of Covishield for the day. We finally got our shots at Sana Hospital, Kausar Bagh, around 11am.”

Rekha Suratwala (67) said, “My husband went to two hospitals at 9am with his friend and failed to get tokens at both the places after waiting in queue for long. The hospital staff said that they issue only 50 tokens per day.”

Rajendra Kumar (64) said that even after booking his slot, he and his wife could not get their second dose on Friday. “When we went to Jupiter Hospital in Baner, we were told that they are only giving second dose of Covaxin and not Covishield, so we had to return home.”

Arpan Dasgupta (71) said that he had an appointment for the first dose of vaccination in Undri. " After waiting at the centre for two hours, we received a notification that the registration has been cancelled. My son tried to log into the app and register again, but could not."


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