Dear Members,
Please find the Immunization Supply Chain Action Plan of India which was prepared in 2014-15 through partners consultation by MOHFW and by India's National center on Cold Chain and Vaccine Management (NNCVMRC ). It is very well aligned with the Improvement plan of EVM 2013, immunization cMYP 2017 . It is now time to review the implementation status of this vision document.
Every country, irrespective of GAVI or non-GAVI should prepare this document and implement. Present status of investment in EPI SC is ad-hoc by all investors including GAVI, I found the programme is fixing symptoms, not the cause. There is no vision document of the country to address issues of EPI supply chain in a systematic way, to fix issues of policies, process, and practices irrespective. India could improve due to the approach of root cause fixing.
Dr Srihari Dutta,
MBBS, MD, DIH
Senior Public Health Exert
Baikunthasadan, HN11, C-Lane
Street No.1, Sastrinagar,Haridwar Road, Dehradun
Uttarakhand, Pin-248001,Email: drsriharidutta1@gmail.com
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