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gave the wrong phone number, and some of them did not actually go to the verification
station, which led to incomplete data in MyVAS. In other words, they did not follow the
vaccine recipient flow and hence, this caused the Person in Charge to take longer time to
correct the data. Sometimes, it can take up to hours and days to solve the problem as we have
to find out the reason for each vaccine recipient who had the ‘status arrived’ or ‘status
progress’ in MyVAS. We have to determine whether did the client miss any station on the day
of vaccination or was it due to poor internet connection? For this issue, we have to have
dedicated staff to show the direction to ensure each client will go to the correct designated
station, and nobody will not miss any station.

The Way Forward

We thought of using a card reader for the first vaccine dose registration. This will minimize
most technical errors (mistake in data entry) in MyVAS. Unfortunately, for now, according to
our IT officer, it is not feasible as our IT team did not have access to MyVAS coding.

Summary

In summary, planning is very important to ensure the vaccine cold chain is maintained and
the client in line listing will turn up for vaccination. We need adequate manpower and a
well-organized vaccination schedule. For mass vaccination, we require an efficient and a
dedicated team, so that the program will run smoothly, new norm SOP is adhered to at all
times, good record keeping that would allow us to send the correct data.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our staff for their commitments in the first
phase of the vaccination program. Thank you.

Reference

Link to Dr Norzaihan's slide:
https://www.slideshare.net/ICRInstituteForClini/webinar-roll-out-vaccine-share-slide-050520
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Video Link: https://youtu.be/lfyJY2zEI-M

Podcast Link:
https://anchor.fm/clinupcovid/episodes/Real-issues-for-COVID19-Vaccine-Immunization--Pr
egnancy-e109e6n