Pvt Hotels To Stop Vaccination
- 30-May-2021
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Some private hospitals are giving package for Covid-19 vaccination in collaboration with luxury hotels. After receiving this reports from very sources, the Centre directed states to stop the violation of guidelines and take action against such institutions.
In a letter to states and Union Territories on Saturday, Union Health Ministry advised that ‘vaccination carried out in star hotels is contrary to the guidelines and must be stopped immediately’.
Necessary legal and administrative actions should be initiated against such institutions. Therefore, you are also requested to monitor and ensure that National Covid Vaccination drive is carried out as per the prescribed guidelines.
It is directed that the officials should monitor and ensure that Covid vaccination guidelines are followed while carrying out the world's largest exercise.
Under the guidelines, vaccination can be carried out at ‘government and private Covid vaccination centres, workplaces, near to home covid vaccination centre for elderly and differently-abled persons to be organised at group housing societies, RWA offices, community centres, panchayat bhawans, school and colleges, old age homes etc on a temporary basis.
Covid vaccination packages by luxury hotels; which include a comfortable stay, healthy breakfast, dinner and wifi, along with ‘vaccination by experts from a renowned hospital and clinical consultation on request’; have drawn criticism on social media.
