Covid-19 vaccine wastage in India: Explained: 23 percent vaccine wasted in the country; Can and how to prevent wastage …

Corona in India Covid-19 vaccine deficiency Total vaccines available for use in the country till April 11 23 percent It has been reported that the vaccine has been wasted. This information is disclosed under the Right to Information Act.

As of April 11, there is more than 44.78 lakh Dosapankis in various states of the country Vaccine dose wasted Gone. In Rajasthan, the highest dose of 6,10,551 wasted.

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Goa, West Bengal, Lakshadweep, Kerala, Andaman, and the Nicobar Islands as well as Mizoram are the best performing states in the index with zero wastage.

How many doses were wasted in which state?

– Rajasthan : 6,10,551
– Tamil Nadu: 5,04,724
– Uttar Pradesh: 4,99,115
– Maharashtra: 3,56,725
– Gujarat: 3.56 lakh
– Bihar: 3,37,769
– Haryana: 2,46,462
– Karnataka: 2,14,842
– Telangana: 1,68,302
– Punjab: 1,56,423
– Chhattisgarh: 1.45 lakh
– Odisha: 1,41,811
– Andhra Pradesh: 1,17,733
– Assam: 1,23,818
– Delhi: 1.35 lakh
– Jammu and Kashmir: 90,619
– Madhya Pradesh: 81,535
– Jharkhand: 63,235
– Uttarakhand: 51,956
– Tripura: 43,292
– Manipur: 11,184
– Meghalaya: 7,673
– Sikkim: 4,314
– Nagaland: 3,844
– Ladakh: 3,957
– Puducherry: 3,115

What is vaccine waste?

Vaccine wastage is a natural part of any major vaccination campaign. Vaccines are made by estimating how many vaccines can be wasted. Each Covid-19 vaccine wastage needs to be within the limits of the recommendation.

There are 10 doses in one bottle of the Covid-19 vaccine. The vaccine should be used within the next four hours after opening the capsule. So users need to know how many caps they want to open in a day. If the capsule is opened at the end of the day, there will be only one or two beneficiaries, and if they are vaccinated, the remaining eight doses are likely to be wasted. Therefore, it is important to keep a balance between the number of open capsules and the number of people coming for vaccination. Even if a person is admitted to the vaccination center for vaccination, the capsule has to be opened at risk. Therefore, the remaining dose of the vaccine is wasted.

Is it possible to avoid the wastage of vaccines?

It is more important to focus on proper planning to avoid the wastage of vaccines. Therefore, it would be appropriate to open the vial only after estimating the number of citizens who will be coming for vaccination in the last hour of the vaccination day. The rest of the people need to come in the morning and get vaccinated, otherwise, other doses will be wasted. After explaining, the citizens also cooperate for this and it was possible to avoid wastage of vaccine, experts say.