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Probe on vaccination data entry gaps

03 Mar 2021

  • Entering vaccine name a must: Epid. Unit

  Following an incident where the details of vaccination had not been recorded properly at a Covid-19 vaccination centre, health authorities promised to look into the matter of the necessary data not being entered in the vaccination cards of members of the public being vaccinated. “In a case where Sri Lanka receives other types of vaccines, having the name of the first vaccine is essential to know which vaccine to administer the second dose from. The vaccination card has dedicated spaces to enter the information because it is imperative that this information is entered. We will inform the relevant centres to look into the matter,” Ministry of Health Epidemiology Unit Consultant Epidemiologist Dr. Deepa Gamage said, addressing the media yesterday (2). The vaccination card includes dedicated spaces to enter the details of the vaccinated individual, the date of vaccination, the name of the vaccine, the place of vaccination, the batch number of the vaccine, and the next date to be vaccinated. Dr. Gamage was responding to a concern raised by the media that the name of the vaccine administered and the next vaccination date has not been entered at a vaccination centre near the Sugathadasa Stadium. She said that the Epidemiology Unit conducted inspections of some of the centres to monitor whether the due process is being followed and that it was observed that the necessary information was being entered. “Some centres write in this information and some centres have come up with a system to enter this data through a seal. Medical Officers of Health have used various methods to enter these details.” Also addressing the media yesterday, Medical Research Institute Consultant Immunologist Dr. Dhanushka Dassanayake said that the second dose administered should be of the same vaccine. “Most vaccines we have today have been developed targeting the spike protein, a protein in the Coronavirus. We can think that the same immunity can be developed through a second dose of a different vaccine but this is all just theory. The recommendation is that the second dose should be of the same vaccine.” As of now, the Oxford AstraZeneca Covishield vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India has received clearance from the National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) for emergency use. Three other vaccines, namely India’s Bharat Biotech vaccine, Russia’s Gamaleya Institute’s Sputnik V, and China’s Sinopharm, are under NMRA review. Sri Lanka has received a total of 1 million Covishield vaccines so far from the Serum Institute of India and the country awaits a batch of 264,000 vaccines from the COVAX Facility to be provided by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.

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