Rajasthan: Jaisalmer district makes full use of Covid vaccine doses

JAISALMER: At minus 10.4% doses, the desert district of Jaisalmer has recorded the least wastage of vaccines in the state. The district administration and the health department formulated a four-level monitoring system which helped bring down the wastage of doses.
Churu tops in wasteage with 39.37%, Hanumangarh at 26.40%, Bharatpur at 17.13%, Kota at 16.71% and Chittorgarh at 11.81%. On the contrary, some districts recorded the wastage in the negative, Sriganganagar -0.26%, Udaipur -1.27%, Banswara -1.93%, Jhunjhunu -3.32% and Jaisalmer -10.24%.
Collector Ashish Modi said till now 1.19 lakh vaccine doses have been administered in the district. Each vial contains 11 doses, and considering one dose as wastage, only10 doses are administered. But in Jaisalmer, the wastage was strictly controlled and all the 11 doses were administered. The doses have to be used up within two hours opening the vial, otherwise it gets wasted, he added.
Committees were formed in each village consisting patwaris, ANMs, Asha workers and others to monitor the vaccination drives.
Achieving this feat in a district like Jaisalmer was remarkable as, unlike other districts, the villages are far-off. It was expected that the district would report the highest wastage, but due to the efficient micro-management by the teams, not a single dose was wasted in Jaisalmer, said district vaccination in-charge Dr Kunal Sahu.