Ensure No Waste Of COVID-19 Vaccine: Health Ministry to States, UTs
The Union Health Secretary during the media briefing said Health Ministry will share the data of COVID vaccine wastage after the ministry analyze it.;
New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Friday directed all states and Union Territories (UTs) to ensure that there is no wastage of COVID-19 vaccines as vaccinators at the session sites can add more people or beneficiaries apart from 'targeted 100 beneficiaries in a day at a particular vaccination site'.
"When we started the COVID-19 vaccination programme, we had factored in at 10 per cent wastage across the country. We have issued very detailed guidelines to the states and UTs about how to avoid wastage of vaccines. We have made our digital platform more flexible and we have permitted that apart from the schedule hundred people, the person who is handling the vaccination session at a particular site can add additional people as long as they are part of the database," said Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan while responding to a question on how vaccine wastage is being tackled.
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The Union Health Secretary during the media briefing said Health Ministry will share the data of vaccine wastage after the ministry analyze it.
Bhushan informed that there are several states that need to improve vaccination performance. It includes -- Jharkhand (14 per cent vaccination), Delhi (15 per cent vaccination), Tamil Nadu (15 per cent vaccination), Uttarakhand (17 per cent vaccination), Chhattisgarh (20 per cent vaccination) and Maharashtra (20 per cent vaccination).
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