On being questioned that what was Union Health Ministry doing to stop bogus beneficiaries, the officials replied that reports were anecdotal in nature.
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has admitted that due to data errors they have issued the wrong Covid Vaccine Certificates, on Friday. The Vaccine Certificates were issued against dead individuals.
“In occasional isolated cases, vaccination certificates are generated for people who were deceased or those who did not receive the vaccine,” Bharati Pravin Pawar, the minister of state for health said responding to a written question in the Lok Sabha.
This was due to uncalculated data entry errors, made by vaccinators. Vaccinators in updating the vaccination data of the second dose of beneficiaries, do make many errors, she said in response to a question raised by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee.
The admission from the government came in the wake of several revelations on such fraudulent certificates, including the latest one from Bihar in which false Covid-19 vaccination certificates were issued in the name of public figures such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Actor Priyanka Chopra.
On being questioned that what was Union Health Ministry doing to stop bogus beneficiaries, the officials replied that reports were anecdotal in nature.
“The reports are anecdotal in nature. I don’t think there is any major mettle in such reports,” said Balram Bhargava, director-general of the Indian Council of Medical Research.
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