PM Narendra Modi asks to create a CO-WIN platform

New Delhi: 

Over 50 countries like Canada, Panama, Nigeria, Mexico have shown interest in the CO-WIN platform. This CO-WIN system will run a vaccination drive. A senior official also said, “India is ready to share the open-source software free of cost.”

According to Dr. R S Sharma the chairman of the empowered group for COVID-19 vaccine administration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed officials to create an open-source version of the platform, which any country can use free of cost.

Countries like Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Dominican Republic also have shown interest to know more about CO-WIN, so they can create in their own countries to run their own COVID programs.

Dr. R S Sharma also said, “ It is a citizen-centric platform and provides a single source of truth till the district level. From the beginning, it was ensured that the platform can be easily used to schedule, reschedule and cancel appointments.”

Dr. Sharma also said, “Most importantly you can go without any appointment to vaccination center and get vaccinated. In fact, 80 percent of our people have gone to the center without an appointment.”

According to him, now we need to ahead and strengthen our public health system. We need to be prepared for such a pandemic in the future. Our basic aim to have equitable access in remote areas. Important to look at health as a percentage of GDP and we should look at 2.5% of healthcare expenditure. Health is a state subject but currently, there is a lack of coordination among states.

He said, “public health system should be driven by tech and data.”

For more daily updates click here.

Updated by Sharaya Paul

News source: Zee News