Pune: National side effects and the immunization committee (AEFI) have urged the state to ensure all side effects after Jab Covid is reported to the Cowin portal.
The committee said there had been a drastic decline at the state reporting rate.
The state must notify the vaccination to report all concerns that occur in 28 days of Covid-19 vaccination, the Head of the Arora NK Committee said, adding that the report must be uploaded on the Cowin platform.
Because of low reporting, India may lose a rare side effects that can be relevant to the community, Indian regulators and other countries, because some vaccines here are also deployed globally, he said.
Malini Aisola, co-convenor of all Indian drug action networks, said the current reporting system was very weak and unresponsive.
“Many people face difficulties when reporting AEFI, let alone secure medical support from vaccination programs, although there are provisions for medical management in the protocol,” he said.
He said the quality of evidence when investigating AEFI at the local level was very bad with many events set aside as not related to vaccination, even before the evidence was collected.
Slow reporting steps also did not work because only 91 AEFI investigations were completed until May 27.
Recently, the AEFI Committee approved a report of 60 serious side effects, governing that 55 of them – the most needed inpatient – associated with vaccination according to the causality assessment.
Five cases left, including the death of a 57-year-old man in February after Jab Covishield, was ordered as “coincidence” and was not directly related to vaccination.