India To Digitize Govt Vaccination Records: Oct Date For U-Win Portal Launch

New Delhi: The Health Ministry of the Central government is all set to digitize the government-run vaccination services being carried out in the country completely, keeping an online record of such services right from the day a mother conceives till delivery and until the child turns 17. It will roll out the U-WIN platform for maintaining the records of vaccination and medicines, the Union Health Minister, JP Nadda said on Friday.

The portal has been created and is being run in pilot basis. Prime Minister Narendra Modi would launch the portal in October, said Nadda. The minister highlighted that the portal would work in 11 regional languages. “It will have an automated alert system,” he added, while addressing a press conference in New Delhi.

Drone services for bringing samples, emergency surgery cubicle

Giving a report card of the NDA government in the health sector on completion of 100 days of its third term, the minister also said that the ministry had started a drone service for bringing samples, medical supplies and reports quickly from difficult terrains.

“It will have a range of 25 km. It is being operated in AIIMS BV Nagar, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Patna, Bilaspur, Rae Bareli, Raipur, Gorakhpur, Puducherry and Imphal. Similarly, Bhishm Cube has also been brought, which is for emergency life-saving clinic care in disaster management…This Bhishma Cube can do 10 to 15 surgeries per day… When the Prime Minister went to Ukraine, he gave them 4 Bhishm Cubes and now it has been deployed in our 50 health units, this is for disaster management,” he said.