This facility introduces a novel VOW (Vaccination On Wheels) concept to take vaccination to schools, colleges and corporates and deliver the service at their doorsteps.
IIT Hyderabad’s Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) fellow Mr. Jignesh Patel has launched in Pune a Vaccination on Wheels Clinic, a first-of-its-kind service in India. This is being done in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided a grant to Mr. Jignesh Patel under its Grand Challenges Explorations.
VaccineOnWheels.com
Called ‘VaccineOnWheels.com’ as they have adopted VOW (Vaccination On Wheels) concept, this clinic will go to schools, colleges and corporates to conduct vaccination camps at their doorsteps. It will offer only vaccination services. It was launched on December 15, 2019 in Pune city’s PCMC area. This unique, unconventional, creative, low-cost and high on convenience model has been designed with the idea of ‘reaching the bottom of the pyramid.’
Mr. Jignesh Patel founded Jivika Healthcare to provide this vaccination service. There are many additional features which makes it a unique vaccination service including:
- Providing low-cost vaccination service to the low-income group of the population
- Creates awareness for government’s immunization programme and sells only those vaccines which are not provided through government
- Cold chain maintenance as per WHO guidelines with state-of-the-art equipment
Congratulating CfHE Graduate Mr. Jignesh Patel on launching this service, Prof. Renu John, Co-Head, CfHE, and Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad, said, “This is a unique programme that works hand-in-hand with the government to cover the last mile in delivering vaccines to people of all strata of the society.”
Awareness camps are conducted in community areas through this Vaccine Clinic with the help of animated videos designed in Marathi and Hindi languages. With these videos and group discussions, the clinic motivates mothers to avail free vaccines from the government.
Jivika Healthcare Social Workers will explain how vaccines can save lives of children and help save money by avoiding hospitalization. Every week between Monday and Saturday, the social workers create awareness and utilize Sunday to invite interested families to visit the clinic for the vaccination drive.
About the initiative
The initiative of Jivika Healthcare’s VaccineOnWheels.com is appreciated and supported by well-known Pediatric doctors of Pune – Dr. Jayant Navarange and Dr. Sadhana Lachyan.
On the day of inauguration (December 15, 2019), Jivika’s healthcare team successfully administered 27 vaccinations to the children from low-income group families. Jivika Healthcare is highly motivated to vaccinate more and more children and everyone in the family. As the more vaccinated people, the fewer opportunities a disease can spread and in-turn it will help save millions of lives.
CfHE programme is dedicated to achieving universal healthcare by igniting the spark of entrepreneurship in youth and providing them with focused training and top-notch mentorship.
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