Of more than 100 private hospitals which want to start vaccination centres, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has shortlisted 20 till now. The corporation will allow them to start the centres after scrutiny. Meanwhile, the data of all BMC employees has been registered as frontline worker and they have been asked to take the jab in batches. On Wednesday, only 69 per cent of targeted beneficiaries received the vaccines. 

The BMC has appealed to private hospitals to come forward to set up vaccination centres as the corporation will start to vaccinate over 30 lakh senior citizens from next month. “More than 100 hospitals responded, but 20 have given information in the stipulated format. We have shortlisted them as of now and the process is going on,” said Suresh Kakani, additional commissioner of the BMC.