PUNE: Union health ministry officials say they have directed states to take up the unused stock of vaccines with private hospitals for immunisation drives at government centres. In lieu, the state governments have been told to offer fresh vaccines to the private hospitals.
However, health officials in Maharashtra say they have not received anything in writing to this effect even as they are besieged with appeals by private hospitals to take their about-to-expire stocks, reports Umesh Isalkar.
