Vaccine Direct Delivery (VDD) is a third party logistics service provided to the State Primary Healthcare Development Agencies, with the aim of providing effective and efficient distribution of vaccines and dry commodities from state cold store to health facilities at the ward level. The service provides quality data and reporting to aid decision making regarding planning, scheduling and routing optimization which improves general vaccine management and reporting.
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Nigeria
eHealth Africa works with state primary healthcare development agencies to ensure that vaccines and dry goods are delivered safely and in a timely manner to health facilities. eHA plans, schedules and routes deliveries using the LoMIS Deliver application and shares with health delivery officers, to enable them to pick the right quantity of vaccines and dry goods from state cold stores to health facilities equipped with cold chain equipment.
At the health facility, the health delivery officer counts available stock of vaccines in the cold chain. Using the LoMIS application on his tablet, he ensures the right quantity of vaccines is delivered and gets a sign off from the health facility. After completion of delivery, the health delivery officer returns remaining stock and waste if any to the state cold store (Reverse Logistics).
Operations
Vaccines and dry goods are readily available at health facilities
Improvement in stock management and accountability
Reduction in stock out rate
eHA's role
Ensure timely delivery of vaccines and dry goods to health facilities equipped with cold chain equipment between daily working hours
Ensure vaccines are delivered at a range of between +2 to +8 Degree Centigrade.
Deploy the use of World Health Organization (WHO) pre-qualified safety cold boxes for transporting the vaccines.
Ensure vaccine management and accountability.
who benefits
Bauchi, Sokoto and Zamfara State primary healthcare development agency
Children under the age of one in Bauchi, Sokoto and Zamfara
Women at childbearing age in Bauchi, Sokoto and Zamfara
Health facility staff in Bauchi, Sokoto and Zamfara
Impact
42 M+
antigens and dry goods moved from inception in 2014 till date for Kano, Bauchi and Sokoto states
39,000+
successful deliveries
408
health facilities visited for vaccine delivery monthly
2,785,484
children vaccinated in Bauchi, Sokoto and Zamfara States
success story
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In the last 6 months (Jan-June), over 2 million vaccines have been delivered to average of 351 cold-chain equipped health facilities monthly, leading to the immunization of over 800,000 children against Vaccine preventable diseases in Sokoto State