The National Health Authority has crossed a major milestone of generating more than one crore tokens for outpatient department registrations using Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) based scan and share service.
The eSanjeevani telemedicine platform now joins other 40 digital health applications that have completed their ABDM integration.
The CoWIN platform chief explained that those eligible for third shot will have to show comorbidity certificate from a registered physician to summarise the problem and then the jab will be given.
Particularly in the context of our country, with a diverse population with multiple languages and cultures, could we have expected people to remember whether they took Covaxin, Covishield or any other available vaccine, without confusion?
The process will now be open to the public which will enable the beneficiaries to skip the painstaking and process of reporting an AEFI which takes days to record.
RS Sharma, CEO, NHA shared the information via a tweet: "We close the day with 1.33 Crore Registrations on Co-Win and delivered 2.78 crore SMSes".
A key theme underlying the meet was the identification of low vaccine coverage pockets particularly in districts showing COVID surge and for taking corrective actions there.
The ministry has written to principal secretaries and secretaries in charge of transport in all states and union territories soliciting their views on concept note of the scheme by the 10th of this month.
Private labs and empanelled hospitals will be geared up to provide the free services to the beneficiaries, it said.
