DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i08.077

Pages: 3411-3415

India has one of the largest Universal Immunization Programs (UIP) in the world and is available for all children in the country free of charge. Since its inception, it is accomplishing a desired aim of child survival interventions to bring about eloquent scaling down childhood infectious diseases burden and its residual outcomes. Vaccine wastage is an important factor in forecasting vaccine needs. The aim is to calculate the vaccine wastage rates in primary health care setting in central rural India. Material and method: This record based cross-sectional study was carried out at one of the primary Health Centre in chandrapur district, The data was collected for one year from 01 April 2016 to 30 March 2017 and analysed to find out vaccine wastage, vaccine wastage rate and wastage factor. Total of 10680 vaccine doses were issued for the immunization against BCG, DPT, OPV, Hepatitis B, Measles and TT vaccination. The vaccine wastage rate and vaccine wastage factor was calculated and found highest for BCG i.e. 66.84% and 3.02 respectively followed by Measles which was 29.02% and 1.41 respectively. Discussion: According to the results of this study, the vaccine wastage rate and wastage factor are found lower than the limits of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and WHO. Systematic monitoring on wastage facilitates logistics management, action plan and decrease vaccine wastage due to avoidable factors.