Write a letter to a health minister of Karnataka,requesting him to increase the supply of COVID-19 vaccine
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Karnataka health minister, K Sudhakar (TOI File Photo)
NEW DELHI: Karnataka health minister K Sudhakar met union health minister Harsh Vardhan here on Tuesday and demanded that the central government supply more Covid-19 vaccine doses to the state.
Karnataka has administered nearly 2.4 crore doses of vaccine so far, which is the highest among all south Indian states, the minister said in the meeting.
Sudhakar is on a two-day visit to the national capital. Besides Vardhan, he also called on several other central ministers, including Gajendra Singh Shekawat, Piyush Goyal, Smriti Irani and Hardeep Singh Puri, and discussed various issues related to the state.
In a representation to the union health minister, Sudhakar said Karnataka has about 13,000 vaccination centres with a demonstrated capacity to administer 10 lakh doses per day.
"I, therefore, request Government of India to kindly increase the supply further so that the state can facilitate vaccination of every willing and eligible citizen at the earliest," the minister said in the letter.
Sudhakar also briefed Vardhan about the way the state government has managed to minimise vaccine wastage.
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