{"id":402,"date":"2017-08-10T21:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T04:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/?p=402"},"modified":"2019-07-19T21:49:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:49:42","slug":"lack-of-proper-cold-chain-storage-transport-for-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/lack-of-proper-cold-chain-storage-transport-for-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of proper \u2018cold chain\u2019 storage &#038; transport for vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cold chain systems, as they are referred, deal with the how the vaccines are stored &amp; transported in a certain range of cold temperatures for the vaccines to retain their effectiveness. It is so critical to maintain the temperature that otherwise; the reduced potency or complete lack of any potency does not only result in wastage of good vaccine but also give people false sense of vaccination. And of course all this associated with loss of good funding and all the resources involved during the storage &amp; transport.&nbsp;<br>In India, it is estimated that only 65% of the children are immunized and it is a long way to go to 100%. Even if you have vaccine supply available they won\u2019t reach the kids in need, if the cold chain systems fail. Primary reason <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0264410X16307307\">weakness in cold chain systems<\/a> arises, in India &amp; all of the developing nations, is lack of proper electricity supply. Many of the villages are off-grid and even if they are on-grid the voltage fluctuations do not make cold storage viable. One might think of developing an off-grid gas powered solution and it might work in some parts not in others, as they may not even have proper road networks and the health-care worker has to walk to carry the vaccines!&nbsp;<br>As you can see, one needs to develop a small portable storage &amp; transport, that uses&nbsp; alternative sources of cooling and maintains the temperature needed for the vaccines. There are other challenges too in terms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.undp.org\/content\/india\/en\/home\/democratic-governance-and-peacebuilding\/successstories\/tracking-the-cold-chain--improving-vaccine-systems-in-india.html\">burden on care workers<\/a> and visibility of vaccine locations &amp; availability etc, will write a post on later.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;Good luck to all the Pieneers! As always, know of anyone or any startup working on this, please let me know, I will update this post.<br>[Image Credit: Thanks to ulleo via <a href=\"http:\/\/s\">Pixabay<\/a>]\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cold chain systems, as they are referred, deal with the how the vaccines are stored &amp; transported in a certain range of cold temperatures for the vaccines to retain their effectiveness. It is so critical <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/lack-of-proper-cold-chain-storage-transport-for-vaccines\/\" title=\"Lack of proper \u2018cold chain\u2019 storage &#038; transport for vaccines\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-storage","9":"tag-vaccine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}