States can add unscheduled vaccine beneficiaries: Centre
2 min read With a complete 7.86 lakh beneficiaries getting the primary dose of the Covid vaccine to date, the Centre Wednesday knowledgeable the states {that a} new function has been added to the flagship Co-Win platform — enabling a session website to vaccinate extra unscheduled beneficiaries for attaining higher protection.
Features of session scheduling, beneficiary allocation, and allocation of extra beneficiaries on the session website have been “further refined”, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan wrote to the states.
“The feature of ‘Allot Beneficiary’ in an ongoing session has been added in the vaccinator module and is live…the feature has been added to facilitate maximum utilisation of staff deployed at the session sites so that they can cater to the optimal number of beneficiaries per sessions,” Bhushan wrote.
Bhushan, nevertheless, stated the brand new function will solely be relevant to extra beneficiaries “whose name exists in the database”. “A person’s name can be searched in the database by the mobile number provided at the time of uploading his/her data in the beneficiary database.”
The Health Secretary additionally stated the brand new function should be used “very carefully” and instructed that the location in-charge do a “careful assessment during the day of numbers of scheduled beneficiaries likely to turn up during the day”. “…better coverage would be possible, but it may be ensured that those scheduled to be vaccinated in a session may not be denied on account of others having being vaccinated.”
The Health Ministry stated “no case of serious/severe AEFI is attributable to vaccination till date”.
