Mumbai: Doctors fail to get jab as names not registered in CoWin app

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Even after a month of the vaccination drive, many city doctors have not got the COVID-19 jab as their names are missing from the CoWin app.

Across Maharashtra, names of almost 20,000 health workers are missing from the app. In JJ Hospital alone, names of 700 frontline workers are not reflecting on the app due to which they couldn't get the jab, reports Times of India.

Dr Dilip Patil, state immunisation officer, said the state has discussed the matter with the Centre on several occasions. "We have been told there is a freeze on registration for both health and frontline workers, but it will most likely be opened again," he said.

"When the Covid-19 outbreak happened, the BMC asked us to keep our clinics running. But when it came to vaccination, a senior doctor is made to run around," said 68-year-old Physician Dr Krishnakant Dhebri who has been struggling to get his name registered from the past three weeks.

Dr Patil said that the state is trying to get at least one does of the vaccine to all 10.54 lakh health care and 7 lakh frontline workers by the end of February. Once that is done, the once who names are missing may be allowed to register again, he said.