MUMBAI : Private hospitals in India are left with excess shots of covid-19 vaccines because of high prices, especially in the face of the free government vaccination drive.
Hospitals are now hoping for a policy change that would either let them give back the vaccines to manufacturers or allow them to give a third dose to their healthcare staff. “The uptake in private hospitals has fallen drastically in the last few months and this has led to several hospitals holding excess stock that has an expiry date of six months from now," Dr Harsh Mahajan, president of the Healthcare Federation of India, a lobby group of private hospitals in India, told Mint. “The government’s free vaccination drive is working really well.