A one day training of trainers for scale-up of U-WIN was held on July 17 at District Hospital, Conference Hall, Mon.
At the training, State Immunization Officer (SIO), Dr. Imkongtemsu Longchar, spoke on the advancement and advantages of the app compared to MCP card (Mother & Child Protection card). He said, once registered in U-WIN app, he or she will have access to immunization from any part of the country.
A press release from NHM, Mon media officer Leeyan Chemshy, stated the participants included medical officers of all the health units, epidemiologist, RBSK co-ordinator, block programme managers, Asha Co-ordinators, District Community Mobilizer, Cold Chain Handlers CCH and staffs of social welfare department, Mon.
While delivering the opening remark, CMO, Dr. Vizokholu Theyo, stated that government has introduced a new digital platform called U-WIN portal to record each vaccination event under the Universal Immunization Programme.
She said, U-WIN will be a single source of information for immunization services that includes updating vaccination status, delivery outcome, pregnant women registration, planning of Routine Immunization schedule etc. She expressed the hope that the health care workers and programme officers will be able to generate full time data for better planning and coordination. She therefore requested the District TOTs (Training of Trainers) to concentrate and learn the insight of each topics inorder to be confident in imparting knowledge in the block level.
The modules of the training were educated in minute details by the resource persons; Kingson Kamkara State Programme Officer UNDP and Rajesh Khatti Mongsang, PO UNDP.
The modules were: registration and scheduling, administration module and session planning; vaccinator module; delivery point module and Mobilizer module.
Earlier, Kingson took a brief session on the background of U-WIN and Rationale for developing U-WIN: single source of truth, registration and vaccination status to be updated on real time basis, delivery outcomes, individualized tracking of beneficiaries, distinct mapping of urban and rural service delivery point, citizen interface, digital vaccination acknowledgment/certificate and common database to be accessed by all states with due list to be provisioned for mobilizers like ASHA workers.