Summary:
The first drive-through vaccination center in Delhi closes after the central Govt.
puts a cap on vaccine price.
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A Few days earlier the central government set a cap on the price of vaccination in private institutes, which forced the first drive-through vaccination center to close as it is not financially viable anymore.
The centre at Vegas Mall, Sector 14, Dwarka, inaugurated on May 26, was established by the Delhi government in collaboration with Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital.
Around 10,000 people received the vaccine shot at the centre so far, said officials of Aakash Healthcare Super Speciality Hospital, which was given the responsibility to run the vaccination centre at Vegas Mall.
Dr Kousar A Shah, Chief Operations Officer (COO), Aakash Healthcare, Dwarka said that the capping of vaccine administration prices has made it "unviable" for the hospital to continue the vaccination program at the drive-through inoculation centre.
"From today, we are stopping Delhi`s first drive-through vaccination program which we ran successfully for the last 15 days and we actually wanted to run this for a longer time," Dr.
Shah told.
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