With the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) taking a break on Sunday, vaccination drives across Vadodara came to a halt and many related programmes scheduled for the day including those organized by various communities had to be cancelled at the last minute.

Some of these organizers were told that programmes were cancelled at the last moment as the VMC did not have enough doses for the vaccination drive.

The Jain Swetambar Murti Pujak Sangh had organised such programmes at three different venues while the Raghuvanshi Lohana Mahajan had also scheduled a vaccine camp. Some professional training institutes had also organised camps for their members to administer the vaccine but were cancelled at the last moment.

VMC officials, however, said that there is no shortage of vaccine doses in the city.

Refuting all allegations of shortage as baseless rumours, Dr Devesh Patel, VMC medical officer said, “As on Saturday, we had 15,000 vaccine doses. On Sunday, we received another 50,000 doses after which the total number of doses has reached 65,000. There is no question of any shortage of vaccines.”

He said that the staff involved in the vaccination drive has been working continuously without any break. “We have to provide some rest to them as well. From Monday, the vaccination drive will continue with full force,” he said.

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