kolkata the state is planning to vaccinate over two lakh health workers over four days this week to reach their target of vaccinating more than three lakh people by the end of january bengal targets to vaccinate 59 lakh healthcare workers with the first covishield dose by the second week of february putting behind its early week glitches bengal has achieved a vaccination turnout of 723 from monday the state targets to roll out the vaccination programme in at least 500 sites the medical colleges in kolkata are set to double their vaccination sites and two private hospitals belle vue clinic and amri mukundapur are joining the list of eight private facilities that have been conducting covid vaccinations since january 16 in all private hospitals centres will have a target of 100 shots a day each will receive a list of 200 names to help them substitute those who dont turn up so far some centres have managed to achieve their targets while others have fallen short repeatedlypeerless hospital medica superspecialty amri dhakuria rn tagore international institute of cardiac sciences rtiics woodlands hospital ink tata medical centre and amri salt will be conducting vaccinations on mondaywe had an inspection last week and will be joining the exercise the target is a stiff one and we have kept our own employees ready to step in if those on the list dont turn up said belle vue clinic ceo p tondonprivate hospitals had to fall back on their own employees to meet their vaccination target even though 2535 of those on the cowin list failed to turn up four out of six hospitals that conducted vaccinations had to substitute the absentees with their own health workers several hospitals are planning to step up counselling to convince recipientsat amri hospitals that flagged off inoculation at its salt lake unit on friday 241 recipients received the shot at its two centres while the dhakuria unit vaccinated 110 health workers the salt lake centre vaccinated 131 other healthcare workers the latter had a target of 200 recipients both however had a 2025 deficit that had to be made up by amri employees many of the cowin list recipients didnt turn up we had kept our own list ready and our staff stepped in to maintain the target said amri ceo rupak baruaipgmer sskm hospital will operate four sites three on its premises and one at the shambhunath pandit hospital on friday the hospital had surpassed its target inoculating 320 hcws against a target of 300 we have decided to raise the number of sites to four on monday said raghunath misra medical superintendent and vice principal msvp at ipgmer medical college hospital kolkata mchk msvp indranil biswas said vaccination sites at the hospital will be doubled