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DIMAPUR — A one day training of trainers to scale-up U-WIN was held on at the conference hall of District Hospital Mon, on Monday.
State Immunisation Officer (SIO) UIP, Dr. Imkongtemsu Longchar, in his address said U-WIN is a continuation of CO-WIN, which was used during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dr. Longchar pointed out the advancement and advantages of the app compared to MCP card (Mother and Child Protection card). He said, once a person gets registered in U-WIN app, he or she will have access to immunisation from any part of the country.
Since the training is all about entering and reporting, he requested trainers to pay full attention to the upcoming technical sessions with the resource persons.
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The participants included medical officers of all the health units, epidemiologist, RBSK co-ordinator, block programme managers, Asha co-ordinators, district community mobiliser, cold chain handlers CCH and staff of Social Welfare department, Mon.
Chief medical officer, Mon, Dr Vizokholu Theyo, in her opening remark, stated that the government has introduced a new digital platform called U-WIN portal to record each vaccination event under the Universal Immunisation Programme.
[bsa_pro_ad_space id=1]The CMO said the U-WIN will be a single source of information for immunisation services that include updating vaccination status, delivery outcome, pregnant women registration, planning of routine immunisation schedule etc.
Theyo expressed optimism that all health care workers and programme officers in the district will be able to generate full time data for better planning and coordination.
She requested all the District TOTs (Training of Trainers) to concentrate and know the insight of each topic in order to be confident in imparting knowledge in the block level, which will be starting soon.
The modules of the training were imparted in minute details by the resource persons - Kingson Kamkara, State Programme Officer UNDP, and Rajesh Khatti Mongsang, PO UNDP.
The modules included registration and scheduling, administration module and session planning, vaccinator module, delivery point module and mobiliser module.
Earlier, Kingson explained on the background of U-WIN and rationale for developing U-WIN: single source of truth, registration and vaccination status to be updated on real time basis, delivery outcomes, individualised tracking of beneficiaries, distinct mapping of urban and rural service delivery point, citizen interface, digital vaccination acknowledgment/certificate and common database to be accessed by all states with due list to be provisioned for mobilisers like ASHA workers.
Earlier, Dr. Wungyong, DPO (UIP&RCH), welcomed all the participants.