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The government may soon start taking feedback on the Universal Immunization WIN (U-WINE) scheme, which was launched last January to digitally record all vaccination services provided under the universal vaccination programme.
Government can take feedback from all stakeholders such as States/UTs, vaccinators, doctors and beneficiaries to overcome the current challenges and make improvements.
“U-WIN has been introduced recently, and we are not even aware of the fact as to how it is running. An official aware of the matter said, “Knowing the overall experience of the U-WIN rollout journey so far will allow us to improve the system.
“It has been revealed that there are some instances where vaccination data may not be uploaded to the U-WIN system and is recorded manually. These issues have to be resolved,” the official said.
When Mint verified with some beneficiaries at a dispensary in East Delhi, a mother said her child’s vaccination data could not be uploaded to the U-WIN portal.
“I took my child for vaccination between 9-12 months. I requested the doctors at the dispensary to upload the vaccination records on U-WIN, but I was informed that U-WIN was not working and hence all the vaccination records were noted manually. I don’t know whether the vaccination data was digitized later or not,” said the lactating mother who declined to be named.
U-WIN is a key technological tool of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to ensure real-time vaccination tracking and improvement in vaccination coverage for eligible beneficiaries such as pregnant women, infants and children.
The above official said that India is moving towards digital health which will increase equity and access to healthcare for all individuals. This digital health transformation will bring transparency and also increase monitoring.
Till November last year, about 74.3 million beneficiaries were registered, 12.6 million vaccination sessions were conducted and 277.7 million administered vaccine doses were recorded on U-WIN.
“As with all new initiatives, challenges are to be expected. These include variability in platform adoption between states, lack of manpower, and the need to collect and input data from private healthcare providers,” said Rajeev Jayadevan, previous President, Indian Medical Association said. (IMA), Cochin.
Questions sent to the Health Ministry remained unanswered.
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