The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said it will begin home
vaccination of bed-ridden people in the city against coronavirus on an
experimental basis from July 30.

The initiative will be rolled
out first in the K-east administrative ward covering the western suburbs
of Andheri east, Marol, Chakala and others, it said.

In a
statement issued on July 29 afternoon, the BMC said that the citizens,
who are bed-ridden due to various physical or medical reasons, will be
vaccinated under this exercise starting July 30.

These citizens
will be administered Covaxin doses as per the directives of the expert
committee and the vaccination process will be carried out in the
presence of experts, wherein all necessary precautions will be
undertaken, it said.

The
civic body said there was a demand for home vaccination of citizens,
who are bed-ridden due to various physical or medical reasons and are
unable to visit the vaccination centres.

It added that the
medical certificate stating that the person, who is to be vaccinated,
will have to remain bed-ridden for at least the next six months, is
required to be submitted to the administration along with the consent of
that person or a relative.

The vaccination of bed-ridden
citizens will be done with the help of Project Mumbai, a non-government
organization, the BMC said.

After the completion of the home
vaccination process in K-east ward, the factors that are required to be
included in the next phase of this exercise will be considered, it said.

The BMC has asked people to e-mail the information about those
bed-ridden citizens to covidvacc2bedridden@gmail.com. It said it has so
far received details of 4,466 such citizens.