Abstract :
India has one of the largest immunization programmes in the world with a budget of more than 500 million US dollars.(1) The country is presently developing new strategies to cover more numbers of children with limited resources. Any reduction in vaccine wastage will save huge resources and have a positive impact on the overall immunization coverage. Majority of private practitioners attends on and average eight deliveries per month in different small nursing homes or hospitals and uses maximum one vial for one baby to vaccinate with BCG. Considering 20 doses per vial wastage is 95%. In this audit we tried to highlight the tip of iceberg by a questionnaire based interview among different private practitioners across city of Kolkata, Howrah, North & South 24 Pgs of West Bengal.
Keyword :
BCG: Bacille Calmette–Guérin, SMS: Short message service.