A Cross Sectional Study of Vaccine Wastage Assessment in a District Hospital of Central India.
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Science and Innovative Research (IJMSIR) - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 6
Abstract
Background: India has one of the largest Universal Immunization Programs (UIP) in the world and is available for all children in the country free of charge. Since its inception, it is accomplishing a desired aim of child survival interventions to bring about scaling down childhood infectious diseases burden and its residual outcomes. Effective vaccine utilization is an integral component of vaccine security and vaccine wastage is one of the key factors to be considered for vaccine forecasting and need estimations. Aim: To calculate the vaccine wastage rates in secondary health care setting in parbhani district of Maharashtra in central India. Material And Method: This record based cross-sectional study was carried out at district hospital of parbhani, The data was collected for one year from 01 January 2016 to 31 December 2016 and analysed to find out vaccine wastage, vaccine wastage rate and wastage factor. Results: Total of 44240 vaccine doses were issued for the immunization against BCG, DPT, OPV, Hepatitis B and Measles vaccination at district hospital on daily basis. The vaccine wastage rate and vaccine wastage factor was calculated and found highest for D.P.T. i.e. 34.23% and 1.52 respectively followed by Measles which was 21.72% and 1.28 respectively. Lowest wastage was seen in use of Hepatitis B vaccine (5.50%). Discussion: According to the results of this study, the vaccine wastage rate and wastage factor are found lower than the limits of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and WHO. Conclusion: Monitoring vaccine wastage is useful as a programme monitoring tool to improve programme quality and increase the efficiency of the programme. The authors endorse that vaccine wastage calculations should be done consistently to assess the loss due to wastage.
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Dr. Kishor Surwase
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