Maharashtra's First Ever Model Immunisation Centre To Be Set Up In Pune: Report

Maharashtra's first model immunisation centre is due to be set up in Pune's Kamala Nehru Hospital and will be fully operational from next month.

Pune city has taken a major step towards vaccine-preventable disease in the state of Maharashtra. The first model immunisation centre will be set in in Pune's Kamala Nehru Hospital which will in turn increase the vaccine services for the residents of the city, said the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in a report. This centre is going to be the first ever model centre in the state. Reports say that this centre will be actively functioning from next month and will cater to a very large population of unvaccinated people in the city.

First Ever Model Immunisation Centre (MIC) In Maharashtra

The centre in Pune is being set up under the Momentum Routine Immunisation Transformation and Equity (MRITE). This project has been funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with Saathi. Under the MRITE project. This fund had also supported 19 districts of the state during he COVID-19 pandemic and had aided in immunizing residents. The current aim of this project and centre is to support the districts in Pune to facilitate and strengthen urban immunisation and also keep a specific focus on capacity building and pilot innovations of GIS mapping and MIC.

Aims Of Model Immunisation Centre

1. To facilitate and strengthen urban immunisation.
2. To keep a specific focus on capacity building.
3. Enhance people-centric immunisation services in the state.
4. Cater to the people with chronic and acute health conditions.
5. The centre will have one dedicated area just for immunisation.
6. It will have cold chain management.
7. It will also consist of waiting areas for people pre and post immunisation.
8. It will have areas for children to play and for women to breastfeed their child.