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Web-based tracking for immunisation in India

By Anshupriya Jha | 17 August 2011

Government has introduced a web-enabled tracking system to ensure that children and pregnant women get basic immunisation, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said.

“We have introduced a name and telephone-based tracking of pregnant mothers and children through a web-enabled system. The initiative intends to make sure that all pregnant mothers and children receive optimum care including complete vaccination,” said Azad in New Delhi at a high-level ministerial meeting of South East Asian nations organised by World Health Organisation (WHO).

He added, “This system will enable us to track each and every child and monitor the provision of timely immunization services, thereby verifying and improving service outreach throughout the country.”

The system will enable the health department to track each and every child and monitor the provision of timely immunisation services, thereby verifying and improving the outreach of services across the country. Such a tracking system will help spot and plug the loopholes as well as reach the remote areas as well as the disadvantaged population.

The WHO has declared 2012 as the Year of Intensification for Routine Immunisation in the South East Asia Region.

Health Ministry statistics say India runs one of the world’s largest immunisation programmes for almost 26 million children born in the country every year.

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