Telangana has determined to briefly halt the Covid-19 vaccination program owing to scarcity of Covid-19 vaccine provides from the union authorities, introduced the state well being minister Etela Rajender.

Addressing media in Hyderabad on Sunday morning, the minister mentioned Telangana noticed the vaccine provides getting exhausted by Saturday.

The state authorities was knowledgeable to count on provides of two.7 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccines by Sunday night time in order that it may well resume the vaccination program from Monday, he mentioned.

“The Telangana well being officers are in fixed talks with the union well being ministry officers and ministry looking for Covid-19 vaccine provides,” mentioned the minister. “We’ve got knowledgeable the union well being ministry that Telangana will resume the vaccination program as quickly because it receives the vaccine provides.”

The union authorities has been supplying vaccines based mostly on the manufacturing ranges and the wants of assorted states, mentioned the Telangana minister. “We hope that the union authorities will resolve the difficulty of vaccine provides on the earliest.”

The well being minister mentioned Telangana was additionally in fixed contact with the union authorities officers to handle the difficulty of oxygen provide shortages. “Oxygen manufacturing and provide can be a topic within the purview of the union authorities and states can not instantly take up the oxygen manufacturing for his or her rising wants,” he mentioned. “Telangana at present wants 260 tons of oxygen a day and because the consumption of Covid-19 sufferers goes up the necessity for oxygen may attain 300-350 tons a day.”

Although Telangana at present suffers vaccine shortages, it has not seen any scarcity of oxygen provides, medicines like Remdesivir and hospital beds availability up to now, mentioned minister Rajender. “Telangana at present has round 60,000 hospitals beds accessible in each private and non-private sector and the issue of scarcity of hospital beds is confined to just some 5-6 hospitals.”

Additional, the Telangana well being minister mentioned greater than half of the hospital beds in Telangana are at present occupied by sufferers from neighbouring states. “Hyderabad is called the healthcare hub with sturdy infrastructure and greater than 50{4298251308cd288b939effe95b4c029e39df70679b4587e1449e43e4b08368d8} of the company hospital beds are at present occupied by the sufferers from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Chhattisgarh, amongst others.”