Not enough people are turning up at the primary health centre in Duttabad to get their Covid shots.
Till Tuesday, around 260 frontline healthcare workers from different hospitals and nursing homes in Salt Lake, New Town and Rajarhat had received their shots here whereas the list sent by the health department carried 465 names.
The vaccination drive began in Salt Lake from January 16 with a total of 125 people getting vaccinated at two centres — Duttabad and at the sub-divisional hospital in DD Block. This had included three members of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation board of administrators who apparently jumped the queue to get jabbed.
An app called CoWin sends SMSes to people informing them to take the shots and they are expected to turn up for it. “Since people are already getting text messages we are not calling to inform them,” said a civic official. “But it’s true that while several people are scared of taking the shot, many are also not receiving communication through the app.”
“The government should now allow the vaccine to anyone who wants to take it,” said a member of the civic body’s board of administrators.
At the sub-divisional hospital, about 60 per cent people are coming per day to get their shots.