Strengthening IT application in Covid-19 vaccination campaign management.

The Steering Committee for the implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in Lao Cai province is headed by Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Giang Thi Dung; Director of Health Department Hoang Quoc Huong is the Standing Deputy Head of the Committee.

In which, 5 subcommittees were established to implement vaccination campaigns, including: Subcommittee on receiving, transporting and preserving vaccines; Subcommittee on Immunization; Subcommittee on Safety of Vaccination; Subcommittee on quality supervision of vaccines; The Sub-Committee on Information Technology Application of Covid-19 Vaccination Management and Communication and the Standing Office of the Steering Committee for the Implementation of the Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign.

Tasks of the subcommittees are specified as follows: The Subcommittee on Receiving, Transporting and Storing Vaccines will receive and store Covid-19 vaccines at the receiving points when the Military Region 2 hands them over and manage them at the time of the Provincial Center for Disease Control or other agencies when needed. Organize the transportation of vaccines from storage places to vaccination points in the province.

The Immunization Subcommittee shall coordinate with the Subcommittee on Receiving, Transporting, and Preserving the Handover and Receiving Vaccines at vaccination points and organizing vaccination implementation. At the same time, coordinate with the Subcommittee on Application of Information Technology to Manage Vaccination against Covid-19 to direct the synthesis of vaccination data to serve the management and propose the number of vaccines.

 The Vaccine Quality Supervision Subcommittee, the Vaccination Safety Subcommittee and the Immunization Subcommittee are responsible for coordinating with other subcommittees to monitor the quality of vaccines from the time of receipt, transportation, storage until implementation. Vaccination declaration at injection sites. In addition, directing the development of guidelines on vaccination, emergency treatment for adverse events after vaccination, at the same time organizing training, training and monitoring and supervising the organization and implementation of tasks...

The Sub-Committee on Information Technology Application of Management of Vaccines and Immunizations against Covid-19 and Communication cooperates with the Sub-Committees to direct the application of information technology in the management of the entire vaccination campaign of Covid-19 prevention from reception, transportation, storage, distribution to vaccination. Applying information technology, using personal health records for vaccination; building vaccination certification system; coordinate with the Immunization Subcommittee to direct the synthesis of data on the demand, quantity and progress of Covid-19 vaccines for vaccination points and publicize on the digitized map of the vaccination campaign. Actively communicating the Covid-19 vaccination campaign across the province.

The Standing Office of the Steering Committee assists the Steering Committee in operating, coordinating activities and responding 24/7 to monitor the implementation of the campaign, and coordinate with the Sub-Committees to handle the situation. situations arise.

Facing the complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lao Cai province has been actively, simultaneously and drastically implementing measures to prevent the Covid-19 pandemic.