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| As India gears up for COVID19 Vaccine roll out, Centre guides States/UTs on Co-WIN management |
NEW DELHI (LisbonTimes):- The Centre has been
proactively carrying activities towards preparing for the nationwide roll-out
of COVID-19 vaccine in close collaboration with States/UTs and all
stakeholders. The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) today
held a VC with administrators from States and UTs on the Cowin software which
forms the backbone of the last-mile vaccine administration.
The meeting was
chaired by Shri Ram Sewak Sharma, Chairman of Empowered Group on Technology and
Data Management to combat COVID-19 and member, National Expert Group on
Vaccine Administration of COVID-19. The meeting was attended by the State
Principal Secretaries, NHM Mission Directors, and State Immunisation officers, and senior officers of the Health Ministry. During the meeting, the feedback of
the States/UTs on the Co-WIN software and its operational use, emanating from
the dry runs, was discussed in detail.
Shri R. S. Sharma gave
an overall view of the Co-WIN software and the principles that shall underpin
the technical back-up for the vaccination exercise. He said that robust,
dependable, and agile technology shall form both the foundation and the back-up
for the country’s COVID-19 vaccination which shall be the world’s largest
immunization exercise. This is an unprecedented scale of immunization, he
pointed out. Addressing the participants, he stated that the process should be
citizen-centric, and built on the approach that the vaccine shall be available
anytime and anywhere. He stressed the need to be flexible without
compromising on quality. He reiterated that the inclusivity, speed, and
scalability have been kept in mind while designing the unique digital platform
with all components being portable, synchronous without excessive and unnecessary
dependencies.
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The EG Chairperson underscored the critical importance of capturing the vaccination data in real time, stating that this was non-negotiable; while the posting of data on the portal may be online or offline in view of connectivity issues being highlighted by few states.
He also critically
highlighted the caution one needs to exercise to ensure that there are ‘no
proxies’ at all; the beneficiaries need to be uniquely and undeniably
identified, he strongly reiterated. Speaking on the use of the Aadhar platform, he
advised the States to urge the beneficiaries to seed their current mobile
number with Aadhar for registration and consequent communication through SMS;
there cannot be any proxies for Aadhar authentication. He pointed out that it
is extremely important to clearly identify the person who is getting vaccinated and
keep a digital record of who gets vaccinated by whom, when, and which vaccine.
He also advised the States and UTs that the data collection should meet the
purpose of facilitating work and that needs to be validated at the field
levels.
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