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Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Thursday said that state has received 7.5 lakh vaccine dosages currently, while other states have been given more vaccines than Maharashtra.
“According to the latest release order of vaccines from Centre, Maharashtra has been given 7.5 lakh vaccine dosages only. While Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana etc have been given far more vaccines than Maharashtra ”, Rajesh Tope.
“I talked to Dr Harshavardhan immediately after this, even Sharad Pawar talked to him. I raised issue of discrimination with us. We have the most number active patients, positivity rate and death with 12 crore population. Why we are given so few vaccines”, he added.
Tope also said that Union Minister Harsh Vardhan assured him and said corrections will be done.
“Harshvardhan Ji assured me that corrections will be done soon. We are still waiting. We want 1.6 crore vaccine dosages per month & 40 lakh every week because we are vaccinating 6 lakh people every day”, Rajesh Tope concluded.
He slammed Centre government for supplying vaccines to other countries.
“We want at least 40 lakh vaccine dosages every week. Instead of supplying vaccines to other countries, supply them to our own states. The centre is helping us but it is not helping us in the way it should”, Maharashtra Health Minister concluded.
