Bengaluru: Eight districts in Karnataka have achieved a negative waste of Covid-19 vaccine with health workers carefully using each bottle to autoculate more than 10 or 20 people allocated.
Covishield comes in a Vial of ten doses of 0.5 ml each and covaxin in two sizes: 10 and 20 doses each 0.5ml.
Each bottle has one or two more doses to explain the spill while drawing a vaccine.
With experience and emphasizing zero waste, health workers in these districts have achieved negative waste.
The city of Bengaluru has topped the country in an absolute term in negative waste: BBMP uses 33,785 doses exceeding 10/20 per bottle allocated.
In the case of excess doses as the percentage of vaccines allocated, Dharwad (4.2%) and Haveri (4.1%) did it well.
Dharwad has used 8,786 excessive doses, followed by diversion (7,139), Uttara Kannada (6,381), Haveri (5,156), Chikkamagaluru (3,776), Kodagu (1,285) and MySuru (497).
“Bengaluru has vaccinated more than 10 people from a covishield bottle and more than 20 people from a single covaxin vial,” said Randeep D, Special Commissioner (Health), BBMP.
According to the norm, every vial vaccine has an extra dose to take into account waste in the syringe.
After opening, the vial must be used in 4 hours.
How dysts make the best from the issue of sustainable supply dosesamid, eight districts in Karnataka have achieved a negative waste of the Covid-19 vaccine.
This is MySuru, Bengaluru Urban, Kodagu, Bataghagavi, Chikkamagaluru, Uttara Kannada, Haveri and Dharwad.
“These districts have ensured bottles are not opened without sufficient beneficiaries,” said Arundhati Chandrasekhar, Mission Director, National Health Mission, Karnataka.
The state has recorded a large vaccine shortage four months ago.
On February 24, Rural Bengaluru Regency and Hassan have a 10 percent waste, Urban Bengaluru 9 percent and Chamarajanagar 8 percent.
However, waste is still a problem in other states.
According to Co-Win and state government data, eight districts were on the radar to report more than 3 percent of vaccine waste on June 25.
The highest waste was seen in Bagalkot at 12.6 percent, followed by Hassan at 8 percent.
, 5.4 percent Koppal, Ramanagara 5.4 percent, Yadgir 5.1 percent, Chikkaballala 4.1 percent, Ballari 3.8 percent and Chamarajanagar 3.5 percent.
“Thanks to the desire of the vaccine, waste has diminished substantially in several districts.
There are strict instructions that there are no bottles that can be opened unless there are 10 people who are ready for Jab.
If there are less than 10, they will be given tokens to come to the vaccination center on the day Next so that waste can be removed, “an official explained.
This shift was driven by a large demand.
“The first two months of the drive are limited to health care workers and frontline, and vaccination is in hospital or office.
The request was picked up after the drive was expanded to citizens.
This caused a better use of shares,” said the BBMP Special Commissioner (Health) Randeep D.
According to Chandrashekar, the data entry can be a problem.
“We have notified the district to prepare a microplan and increase the increase in field staff capacity.
We have had training sessions and video conferencing to monitor the same thing,” he said.