Chennai: Tamilnadu Health Minister M Subramanian will leave for New Delhi today, to press the Centre to allot more vaccines to the State.
According to sources, Subramanian will meet Union Health Minister Mansukh L Mandaviya to get more vaccines to the State.
This comes days after Health Secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan met top officials of the Centre and a day after Chief Minister M K Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking more vaccine does to Tamilnadu.
Stalin requested PM’s intervention to ‘correct the imbalance’ in the Covid-19 vaccine allocation for Tamilnadu, and make a special allotment of one crore doses.
In a letter, a copy of which was released to the media here, Stalin said the State had received till 8 July only 29,18,110 vaccine doses from the Centre for beneficiaries in the 18-44 age category and 1,30,08,440 for those above the age of 45.
He said the allocation was inadequate, and the State was finding it extremely difficult to meet the demand for vaccination.