District Training of Trainers on Scale-up of U-WIN was conducted by Chief Medical Office (CMO) Kiphire, Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland at District Hospital Conference Hall in Kiphire on Wednesday.

CMO Kiphire, Dr R Chubala Aier in her opening remark hoped that the participants would benefit from the training and be changemakers in their respective area of coverage. “We are here to guide you, but the real task lies in all of your hands as trainers,” She said.

CMO Kiphire, Dr R Chubala Aier

Dr Imli Longkumer, Regional Project Officer, UNDP highlighted the participants on the U-WIN portal, it’s applications and processes.

Demo session with the trainers was organised wherein they were made to practice the practical formats of the U-WIN portal so as to inculcate them with the knowledge.

The state team of UNDP (United Nations Development Program) explained on the module- facilities and users creation, mapping, integration with other portals SOP and demonstration. Session planning and session management was also discussed thoroughly.

The team also highlighted that the Government of India is committed to ensure health and safety for all its citizens by promoting universal and equitable access to basic and essential services. Leveraging the learnings and achievements of eVIN and CoWIN in ensuring seamless management of UIP/COVID vaccines and digital platform enabling real-time tracking and management of beneficiaries and vaccination, MoHFW has planned to build a third pillar based on the existing eVIN and CoWIN platforms for digitizing the routine immunization services in the country through U-WIN.

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The U-WIN platform, launched on 11 January 2023 in 65 pilot districts across India, is based on the CoWIN database which served as the “digital backbone” for India’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. The U-WIN platform will be the digital solution to facilitate tracking of every pregnant woman, new-born, child and adolescent for vaccination.

The system will allow planning of vaccination sessions, registration of beneficiaries, updating of vaccination status digitally on real-time basis from the last mile of service delivery by the vaccinator, recording and reporting of all data for the UIP.

For pregnant women and children, vaccine acknowledgement and immunisation card linked to ABHA ID (Ayushman Bharat Heath Account) will be generated and all states and districts will have access to a common secure database to track and vaccinate beneficiaries.

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Nagaland has already successfully implemented U-WIN in two selected pilot districts of Dimapur and Peren and through which, the entire vaccination system including records is getting digitised, easing the tracking of beneficiaries. Currently, all vaccination records under UIP are being maintained manually which with the adoption of U-WIN will do away with the hassle of keeping physical records. It will enable digitisation of session planning and updating vaccination status on a real-time basis.

Through this platform, citizens will be able to check nearby ongoing routine immunisation sessions and book appointments. Beneficiaries would be able to plan and book slots for vaccination in advance as well as avail on spot registration and vaccination services. Once the whole immunisation programme is digitised, beneficiaries will get digital certificates stored in secure Digi-lockers on the spot and will also be able to download them anytime they need it.

U-WIN will support in improving vaccination coverage by facilitating appropriate intervals between doses, digital verification and tracking of beneficiaries, promoting consistency in vaccination schedules and communication with beneficiaries.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will be using U-WIN platform in upcoming Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI) 5.0 to be conducted for three months (August-October 2023) with the intention to vaccinate all children upto 5 years of age and pregnant women who have missed any of their due routine immunization vaccine doses as per Universal Immunization Programme schedule. All such beneficiaries will be registered on U-WIN and vaccinated in specially planned IMI sessions.

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