44 -year -old Laveena Sattar, while getting down from the slippery mouth of the boat, carefully moves the steps. As soon as he reaches the ground, she almost runs to the autorickshaw that takes them to the primary health center of Bambuflat. Located on one of the thousand islands in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bambuflat is an Aman Pasand village. India has about two lakh government health facilities, which run on the strength of millions of health workers like Lava. Laveena contributes significantly to its huge vaccination program. The Government of India is one of the largest programs in the world, which provides annual service to about 2 crore 70 lakh newborns and 2 crore 90 lakh pregnant women. This program also reaches the inaccessible mountainous regions of remote and remote islands, but despite the dedicated efforts of health workers, some children are still deprived of the doubt of life saving vaccines. Sometimes, parents migrate to different states or cities in search of employment, or they are never aware of vaccination. In some cases, the guardians working on daily wage do not want to take the risk of leaving the income of one day, so they are negligent in vaccination, which leads to risk to the health of newborns and children. Through digital forums like U-WIN, there is a revolution in the field of ensuring universal vaccination in India. In view of the helpful challenge from U-Win, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, has launched a new digital vaccination forum called U-Win, in association with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and other partners. This app has been designed for the health monitoring and registration of pregnant women and children. U-Win, ie an app called ‘Universal Immunization’, is the first such platform of its kind, under which between January 2023 and November 2024, more than 7 crore 50 lakh beneficiaries have been registered across the country and by giving more than 28 million vaccines, more than 28 million vaccines have been recorded. And by monitoring the child’s vaccination status in real time, it has proved to be helpful in achieving progress in the field of vaccination in India. More than this, more and more people are expected to get the lost vaccine and decrease in infant mortality. Lavina Sattar, who is working as a assistant nurse in two children and assistant nurses in the Bamboflat Primary Health Center, says, “From U-Win, we have brought a lot of change in the methods of vaccination workers to work.” “Earlier, we were dependent on the written record after the remarks and number of vaccinations. It is now automated. A mother with her child at the vaccination center. Be it better technology masmartphone or ordinary phone, now parents can easily get a message from their mobile phone about their or their child’s upcoming vaccination. This helps families to use time better and plan. Earlier, they had to spend most of the time to wait for their turn when they came for vaccination. Sometimes, his income of one day was also cut for this. Pregnant women and parents have started coming to the health center with their infants. 26-year-old Rajeshwari is putting her two-month-old daughter to sleep slowly in cold sea air. She says, “Now we do not have to wait long at health centers, because we already get a message about the upcoming vaccination and our time slot.” U-Winu-Win born to Co-Win, India’s coronavirus “> Covid-19 Vaccination Program has been developed on the lines of CO-WIN. This digital health system had helped more than two billion people to vaccinate more than two billion people in less than 18 months. Works as government or private hospitals located in cities, or health centers in rural areas. It allows the beneficiaries to get vaccinated anywhere in India, and especially the migrant population in other states for functioning provides special benefit from this. Digital health innovation like U-Vin helps in increasing access to vaccines and equally to benefit the benefits of health facilities. At the same time, he offers millions of an forward line workers like Lavina Sattar to take care of their children and family, as well as to reach their work on time by taking a boat at 7 in the morning. Laveena Sattar says, “Children are our future. We should make every possible effort to keep them safe and healthy. This makes a two-hour journey to the health center.” A slow smile blossoms on his lips. A detailed version of this article was published here first.
Healthy start, hopeful future: Vaccination efforts through app
