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Kolkata: All private practitioners, doctors—who run clinics across the state—and health care professionals working in the private chambers would also receive Covid vaccine in the first phase. The Health department had already urged the private practitioners and others working in various clinics to submit their names to the district health officials. The State Health department has been trying to reach out to the doctors, who are not attached to any hospital and other health careinstitutes. All the Chief Medical Officers of Health (CMoH) in the districts have been instructed by the Health department so that these doctors are notleft out. The private doctors are being sent a form by the health administration in the districts which will contain theirdetails..