Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy tells PM Modi to reduce vaccine doses to private hospitals

VIJAYAWADA: Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday reiterated his demand to reduce the Covid-19 vaccine doses being allotted to private hospitals and reallocate them to the state government. He said that private hospitals are not able to utilise the quota and wanted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to redirect those doses to the state government.


The chief minister participated in the video conference of the Prime Minister on Friday. Modi interacted with chief ministers of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra and Kerala on the pandemic scenario.

Jagan said vaccination is the only solution for Covid-19 pandemic. He said the state has received 1.68,46,210 doses of vaccine of which 1,76,70,642 people were given first and second doses. Because of best medical practices followed by the state, the pandemic had been contained, the chief minister said.

He added that the Central government had allocated 53,14,740 doses of vaccine to the state for July of which 17,71,580 doses were given to private hospitals. He said private hospitals have administered only 4,20,209 doses in June. Many have not completed their allotted doses. He suggested to the Prime Minister to allot the unused vaccine doses from the private hospitals to the government so as to increase the vaccination process.

Jagan said that the state was able to handle the vaccination drive successfully because of village and ward volunteers’ system. The volunteers were able to identify the people and taking them to the vaccination centres, he added.

He said the state was able to face the Covid-19 challenge despite not having the medical facilities on par with Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad.