In a bid to straighten out the states, the Government of India in its new immunization guidelines has made it abundantly clear that the vaccine wastage rate will play a tremendous role in the vaccine doses being allocated to the states. It must be remembered that Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday announced a re-centralization of vaccine procurement and distribution after his government completely messed up the states with India’s vaccination campaign in the past month. Now that vaccine allocation to states will be negatively impacted by their respective vaccine wastage rates, opposition-ruled states are expected to work closer together soon. “The vaccine doses to be provided free of cost by the Government of India will be allocated to the States/UTs based on the norms. such as population, disease burden and vaccination progress. Vaccine waste will negatively affect allocation, says the new guidelines. For so long, states were taking their vaccine wastage very recklessly – not realizing that every wasted dose could potentially be the death knell for an Indian citizen.
The central government realizes this, and by deciding not to allocate massive amounts of vaccines to such states, has forced their governments to urgently address the vaccine wastage rate in their regions. States such as Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu top the list with astronomically high numbers of vaccine wastages, according to data released by the Union health ministry in late May. Incidentally, all these states are opposition ruled. Jharkhand has recorded 37.3 per cent wastage, followed by Chhattisgarh with 30.2 per cent and Tamil Nadu at 15.5 per cent. It is important to note that the national average for food wasted is only 6.3 percent. TFI reported last month how Rajasthan was at the fore when it comes to wasting vaccine doses. Under the Congress rule of Rajasthan, a total of 11. 5 lakh – 7 percent of the total vaccine dose is wasted. The numbers coming from the districts of Rajasthan are shocking, to say the least, Churu district has suffered the most. 39.7 percent of the vaccine. After Churu, there is 24.60 percent vaccine wastage in Hanumagarh, 17.13 percent in Bharatpur and 16.71 percent in Kota. States have shamelessly dismissed the vaccine wastage figures, claiming that the wastage figures are actually below the national average. . “We’ve already taken it. There is a data mismatch. There is vaccine usage data that they haven’t taken into account. This was also raised in the meeting with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ji and we were assured that unless the data is reconciled, it will not be released,” Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo told ET. Churu district has suffered the most, to say the least. 39.7 percent of the vaccine. After Churu, there is 24.60 percent vaccine wastage in Hanumagarh, 17.13 percent in Bharatpur and 16.71 percent in Kota. States have shamelessly dismissed the vaccine wastage figures, claiming that the wastage figures are actually below the national average. . “We’ve already taken it. There is a data mismatch. There is vaccine usage data that they haven’t taken into account. This was also raised in the meeting with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ji and we were assured that unless the data is reconciled, it will not be released,” Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo told ET. Churu district has suffered the most, to say the least. 39.7 percent of the vaccine. After Churu, there is 24.60 percent vaccine wastage in Hanumagarh, 17.13 percent in Bharatpur and 16.71 percent in Kota. States have shamelessly dismissed the vaccine wastage figures, claiming that the wastage figures are actually below the national average. . “We’ve already taken it. There is a data mismatch. There is vaccine use data they haven’t taken into account. This was also raised in the meeting with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ji and we were assured that unless the data is reconciled, it will not be released,” Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo told ET. 71 percent of the vaccine is wasted. States have shamelessly dismissed the vaccine wastage figures, claiming that the wastage figures are actually below the national average. . “We’ve already taken it. There is a data mismatch. There is vaccine usage data that they haven’t taken into account. This was also raised in the meeting with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ji and we were assured that unless the data is reconciled, it will not be released,” Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo told ET. 71 percent of the vaccine is wasted. States have shamelessly dismissed the vaccine wastage figures, claiming that the wastage figures are actually below the national average. . “We’ve already taken it. There is a data mismatch. There is vaccine use data they haven’t taken into account. This was also raised in the meeting with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ji and we were assured that unless the data is reconciled, it will not be released,” Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo told ET. “We’ve already taken it. There is a data mismatch. There is vaccine usage data that they haven’t taken into account. This was also raised in the meeting with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ji and we were assured that unless the data is reconciled, it will not be released,” Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo told ET. “We’ve already taken it. There is a data mismatch. There is vaccine usage data that they haven’t taken into account. This was also raised in the meeting with Health Minister Harsh Vardhan ji and we were assured that unless the data is reconciled, it will not be released,” Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo told ET.
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