Information dissemination and advocacy communication and social mobilisation, advocacy meetings and activities to be conducted at all levels. Whilst we do this, we also ask Hon. Members to help in this matter that it is the duty of everyone to make sure that our people are educated. There will be national vaccination launch to be conducted virtually to rally all stakeholders for COVID-19, social mobilisation done at all levels in order to create demand for the vaccine. Finally, community mobilisation for vaccination will be conducted via radio, television programmes and announcements; interpersonal communication with target groups, newspaper article and advertisement and social media campaigns, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and bulky SMEs and lastly billboards, banners, posters and board media and crisis communication addressing serious AEFIs.
Let me now come to vaccine safety monitoring and management of AEFIs and injection safety; in partnership with MoHCC-ZEPI, the National Pharmacovigilance & Clinical Trials Committee and MCAZ are the main drivers of vaccine safety surveillance. Covid-19 vaccine safety surveillance will be guided by already existing MoHCC’s Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) surveillance guidelines and the WHO COVID-19 vaccines safety surveillance manual. Safety surveillance for COVID-19 vaccine will be further strengthened through additional:
Training and preparation of health care workers on identification, management and reporting of potential cases of anaphylaxis and ensuring availability of comprehensive emergency tray at all vaccination points. A lot of people might react, just like any other drug. Some people are given simple stop pain and they react. Therefore, we have to be prepared to deal with such situations. That is what is being explained here.
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