The Crime Desk: Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) is bringing the EPI program (Immunization Program) online. In this way,way, EPI activities will be strengthened by ‘e-tracking’ through an app called ‘Smart Health BD’. City Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury will officially inaugurate this program on Monday.
According to CCC’s health department, information about the child who received the first dose of the vaccine will be stored in the app. There will be an alarm system. An alarm will be signaled before and after the scheduled day of the child’s next dose. As a result, there will be no more mistakes about vaccination. Besides, the entered child will have a digital number. If you check at any center with that number, all the information about the child will come up. come up. As a result, parents can vaccinate the child from anywhere.
CCC’s chief health officer confirmed the issues Dr. Imam Hossain Rana told the media that the EPI activities will be online–centric. Earlier,Earlier, we used to report manually to DG headquartersheadquarters. But now the entry will be done directly from each center. The new system is positive for everyone, including parents.
He said we hadhad started the activities onon April 20. So far,far, 14,000 children have been registered through the app. The main objective of the program is to identify all children under one year of age by transforming the EPI program into a digital platform and bringing it under greater coverage. Strengthening immunization programs by finding zero-dose, under-immunized, and missed community children, especially in urban areas.
