Govt to soon roll out U-WIN portal for maintaining electronic registry of routine immunisations

The government is set to launch UWIN portal designed on the lines of COVID19 vaccine management system CoWIN for maintaining an electronic registry of routine immunisationsThe UWIN programme has been designed to digitise the Universal Immunisation Programme UIP and it is presently being run in a pilot mode in two districts of each state and Union TerritoryThe platform will be used to register and vaccinate every pregnant woman record her delivery outcome register every newborn delivery administer birth doses and all vaccination events thereafter official sources told PTIUWIN which will replicate CoWIN was launched on January 11 in 65 districts across the country Vaccination records under UIP are being maintained manually as of now So this will do away with the hassle of keeping a physical record It will enable the digitisation of session planning and updating vaccination status on a realtime basis an official saidPresently multiple vaccines and doses lead to difficulty in monitoring another official stated The system is also plagued by the absence of a mechanism of individual tracking There is also lack of awareness among beneficiaries about sessions location and date especially in urban areas and iniquity in immunisation coverage in statesUTsBesides another major issue is that immunisation at private health facilities is not recorded the official explainedThe UWIN is going to be the single source of information for immunisation services which will record pregnancy details and outcome newborn registration and immunisation at birth There will also be live updating of vaccination status delivery outcome and planning of RI routine immunisation sessionsThere will be digital registrations of all pregnant women and newborns for individualised tracking for vaccination reminders for upcoming doses and followup of dropoutsHealthcare workers and programme managers will be able to generate realtime data of routine immunisation sessions and vaccination coverage for better planning and vaccine distribution There will be details of sessions planned in their area for the coming month and duelist of beneficiaries an official explainedFor pregnant women and children vaccine acknowledgement and immunisation card linked to ABHA ID Ayushman Bharat Heath Account will be generated and all states and districts can access a common database to track and vaccinate beneficiariesBesides through the platform citizens can check nearby ongoing routine immunisation sessions and book appointments the official told PTIBesides all the evaccination certificates like Covid vaccination certificates will have pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi the official saidAccording to the status update on beneficiary data and sessions from statesUTs till August 28 more than 68 million beneficiaries have been registered and more than 13 million vaccine doses recorded and tracked through UWINAccording to the data 3358770 infants in the agegroup of 01 years and 2098338 children aged 15 years have been registered Besides 1420708 pregnant women have been registered and 13260903 doses are being digitally trackedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever