Travel pattern and profile of clients using online registration system and mobile accessibility for vaccination in a newly established yellow fever vaccination clinic at AIIMS Patna, India

Abstract

Background: Prevention of Yellow Fever (YF) in travellers to Yellow Fever endemic zone can be done with YF 17D vaccine which is a live attenuated vaccine and can be given only up to one hour after reconstitution. The objective of this study was to study the demographic and travelling pattern of clients who got vaccinated at newly established Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC) at AIIMS Patna and to assess the vaccine wastage by initiating online and telephonic registration system. Methods: We developed a web based portal to register the name of passengers who wanted to take YF vaccine at AIIMS Patna from August to December 2016. General demographic characteristics of travellers and their travelling pattern was also obtained. Results: Total 428 doses used and 409 persons were vaccinated from August to December 2016 with vaccine wastage of less than 5%. Most of them have taken vaccine for travelling to the African endemic countries (81.9%) and the main purpose of their visit was for doing job (85.5%). Conclusion: By using online registration system and twenty four hour accessibility on mobile phone, we have achieved a remarkable achievement in terms of keeping vaccine wastage below 5% level.

Keywords

• yellow fever
• yellow fever vaccination
• vaccine wastage