By Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay New Delhi: Public health as a subject is of prime importance to every nation. Especially, India with its 1.4 billion population faces an uphill task in providing universal and affordable healthcare. Without leveraging technology at scale, such aspirations will only remain a pipe dream. Importantly, the COVID pandemic has shown the world … Read more
New Delhi: Carrying vaccination cards of children and pregnant women, struggling to keep a tab on the next jab and other such hassles may soon become a thing of the past. After the success of the Co-WIN platform, the government has now replicated it to set up an electronic registry for routine vaccinations. Named U-WIN, … Read more
The Union government is planning to repurpose the Co-WIN platform for India’s Universal Immunisation Programme and other national health programmes while continuing with its current function of recording Covid vaccination and issuing certificates. The vaccination record under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) is now maintained manually. “Once Co-WIN is repurposed to include the UIP, the … Read more
Those born in 2008, 2009, and 2010, i.e, those who are above the age of 12, will be eligible for their Covid-19 vaccines from March 16, the Union Minister said. The Centre is expanding its Covid-19 universal immunization program to kids between the age of 12 and 14 years, Wednesday onwards. Health minister Mansukh Mandaviya … Read more
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine can save lives. By Sutapa Biswas, Saswati, Sangeeta and Savitha live in different parts of India, have different backgrounds, levels of education and understanding about health and cancer. They have not met each other but remain connected by their common decision to vaccinate their daughters against cervical cancer – defying … Read more