DIMAPUR, JULY 17 (MExN): “This training is not a rocket science, most are already familiar, it is a continuous app of CO-WIN which was used during COVID pandemic, it has been shifted to U-WIN,” said Dr Imkongtemsu Longchar State Immunization Officer (SIO) UIP during a one day training of trainers for scale-up of U-WIN which was held on July 17 at District Hospital, Conference Hall, Mon.
He also pointed out the advancement and advantages of the app compared toMCP card (Mother & Child Protection card). He said, once one gets registered in U-WIN app he or she will have access to immunization from any part of the country. The training is all about entering and reporting and so, he requested all to pay full attention to the upcoming technical sessions with the resource persons.
Dr Wungyong, DPO (UIP&RCH), the chairperson, welcomed all the participants and had a round of introduction of all the participants. The participants were Medical Officers of all the Health Units, Epidemiologist, RBSK co-ordinator, Block Programme Managers, Asha Co-ordinators, District Community Mobilizer, Cold Chain Handlers CCH and staffs of social welfare department, Mon.
While giving the opening remark, Dr Vizokholu Theyo, CMO, stated that the government has introduced a new digital platform called U-WIN portal to record each vaccination event under the Universal Immunization Programme. She said U-WIN will be a single source of information for immunization services that includes updating vaccination status, delivery outcome, pregnant women registration, planning of Routine Immunization schedule etc. She expressed confidence that all health care workers and programme officers will be able to generate full time data for better planning and coordination. The CMO 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 educated in minute details by the resource persons; Kingson Kamkara, State Programme Officer, UNDP and Rajesh Khatti Mongsang, PO, UNDP. The modules were registration & scheduling, administration module & session planning; vaccinator module; delivery point module and mobilizer module.
Earlier, Kingson took a brief session on the background of U-WIN and the rationale for developing U-WIN: single source of truth, registration and vaccination status to be updated on real time basis, delivery outcomes, individualized 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 mobilizers like ASHA workers.
