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The government would launch a pilot project in polio-affected areas of the country in order to create a database of every inoculated or vaccinated child. The database will have contact details of each child to verify if he or she has actually been immunised or not.
The health authorities would acquire the contact numbers,either from the family or any known number in the vicinity,of a vaccinated child,and call on the same for verification.
Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said this at the launch of National Initiative for Patient Safety programme,which was organised by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences AIIMS,World Health Organisation WHO and India Clinical Epidemiology Network INCLEN trust.
Citing data about safety of patients from across the world,the Minister said he was not sure of any such data being available in any part of India. We have no such data in India. And even if we have one,we cant be sure how reliable it is. We have,therefore,decided to launch a pilot project to create a database in polio-affected areas, said the Minister.
