Mumbai Residents of a housing society in Mumbai's Kandivali area have claimed they were apparently cheated by some persons who organised a COVID-19 vaccination camp for its members and the vaccine that was administered could be spurious, following which Mumbai Police launched an investigation.
A vaccination camp was arranged by the residential complex on May 30. But later it found that the Co-WIN portal did not have any record of the people who participated and they received certificates in the name of different hospitals, it said.
''If the vaccine is found to be spurious, the people who got vaccinated will have a medical emergency to deal with. Therefore, there is an urgent need to investigate the whole episode so that such fraudulent activities are not repeated at other places,'' the complaint said.
The Hiranandani Heritage Residents Welfare Association had orgainzed the camp through a person who claimed to be a sales representative of a reputed private hospital in suburban Andheri. As many as 390 members received the jabs at the camp at Rs 1,260 per person, it had said in the complaint which stated that some unscrupulous elements have taken the society for a ride.
Nanavati Hospital had said in a statement that it had not conducted any such vaccination camp. ''We have informed the authorities and are lodging a formal complaint,'' said its spokesperson on Tuesday.
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