Govt aims to extend CoWIN app to blood banks, immunization of children: RS Sharma

According to RS Sharma, chief executive officer of the National Health Authority, the digital platform, which currently captures immunization data of adult Indian citizens and helps with immunization appointments, will be required to record data on child immunization as well as blood banks. can be extended to.

“Now that we have this platform we can really re-purpose it for a lot of different things,” said Sharma, chief architect. covin app in an interview. It could also be linked to the government’s flagship public health insurance programme, called the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission – the authority tasked with implementing the initiative – and paves the way for unique health identification numbers, he said. said.

The move comes after India managed over 1 billion COVID shots in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The revamped CoWin will help the central government oversee if there are loopholes in public health care programmes, especially those administered by hordes of state governments and where data tends to falter.

“Every vaccination for a child, whether done in a private hospital or in a public hospital, shall be recorded on Forum And so that we have a very clear record that if a child has missed a dose of vaccination,” Sharma said. “Blood donation can also be accelerated using this platform.”

The digital platform, which was initially plagued by technical glitches, also faced concerns over privacy and increased surveillance in India. There is no data protection law in the country and a panel of lawmakers is examining the bill. Sharma assured that the CoWin data was “safe and secure”.

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