The excitement for gettingvaccinated on Day 1 of the third phase of massive immunization drive turnedinto a chaos after the CoWIN portal kept shutting down intermittently whileprocessing the inoculation exercise, several hospitals complained.
It resulted into hour’s longdelay for those who came early for registration on-site and even those whoself-registered through the portal.
Many hospitals likeMoolchand closed walk-in registration as early as 1 p.m. to control the crowdwaiting for their turn to get inoculated against the novel Coronavirus.
Madhu Handa, MedicalSuperitendent at south Delhi-based Moolchand Hospital said that the CoWINportal is crashing every now and then.
Many alleged that they werenot told that the vaccination would start from 12 noon.
Jaswinder Singh fromGurugram, who brought along his father and father-in-law to Moolchand Hospitalsaid that he has been waiting for over two hours. My parents are above 80 yearsof age and they are forced to stand in a queue. There is no management,"he said.
"I chose privatefacility for better convenience. If this is the situation here, god knows howthings will unfold at government centres," said 70-year-old TarkeshwarRana, who has been in queue for vaccination since 10.30 a.m.
The situation at MoolchandHospital was similar to other hospitals. Many hospitals reported sameexperience and blamed the technical issues of CoWIN.
"We have the capacityto manage but the delay caused in vaccination is making them anxious. Besides,the staff deployed from the government is also not cooperating," a seniordoctor from a large private hospital said.