Dear viewers
All of us are witnessing rapid multidimensional growth of routine immunization in the current decade. Keeping pace with the rapidly expanding / frequently changing schedule itself is a challenge faced by the service providers, more so in the private sector.
Pilot study revealed dangerously poor operational knowledge among the Medicos who are the current and would-be programme managers at various levels. This is conspicuously accentuated by the absence of an uniform vaccination schedule and vaccines with no Vaccine Vial Monitor (VVM) in the private sector.
We collected vaccination record cards of various private institutions, including Medical Colleges, providing vaccination services and found that no two vaccination cards are mutually matching either with IAP schedule or with National Immunization Schedule (NIS), whether essential vaccines of NIS or optional vaccines.
This is creating divided opinion in the community and the caretakers generally have lot of faith and strongly believe what they were advised by the super specialists in the super specialty hospitals at the time of giving birth and insist administration of vaccines as per the vaccination card they have from the private Institution.
India gives birth to ~2.7 core (27 million/270 Lakhs) live infants in a year. Even if 10% avail services from the private sector, absolute number is ~27 Lakhs per year in the country. Most of these children are from APL families (Above Poverty Line) – especially of Doctors / Nurses / Engineers / community leaders and the like who are deprived of receiving vaccines with known potency indirectly depicted by the VVM free of cost from the government. Though eligible, many are deprived of Mother and Child Protection Card [Tayi-card] in Karnataka and the vaccination data are not shared with the Government, even on sharing it cannot be “MCTiSed” = uploading to MCTS and making online.
Please find the attached with only 3 examples though this number is more than a million for the whole country. This is beyond the scope of “Intensified Mission Immunization (IMI)” as of now.
RI should become “peoples’ movement” as aptly iterated by the Honorable Prime Minister, which can address some of these issues to a large extent.
Solutions are with us – the deep lovers of RI, promoters of child health. Shelling out “my-self” from the “APATHY” itself is the first simplest and biggest step followed by empathy for the birthing children / future generation.
Doing right things properly at the right time and by the authorized persons itself are the easiest and the most gratifying social service in any field, more so in medical field, that too vaccination – providing quality life-saving services to the newborns and the children.
best wishes
Holla and the team
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