Guyana and India team up to produce vax e-cards

GUYANA AND INDIA HAVE COLLABORATED TO PRODUCE electronic vaccination
cards (E-cards) for use in the Cooperative Republic.
The two sides were expected to ink a memorandum of understanding (MOU) last week enabling
the Cooperative Republic to access the COVID-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (COWIN)
software from the Asian giant to produce the E-cards to replace the vulnerable paper document
currently in use.
“We’ll be signing off the Memorandum of Understanding, which will allow us to get the
COWIN software. Once we get that COVID software, that’s going to be what we will be using.
So, we will migrate the electronic data we have into that software, and then we’ll be able to
produce the new cards that people would have,” Dr Anthony explained.
The E-cards will help curb forging of vaccination documents, already a headache created by
crooks in and for out of the health system for Anthony and other health authorities.
Several persons are already facing charges for faking the ministry’s Covid-19 vaccination
cards.
The health minister said that the manual registers of vaccine distribution and vaccination
booklets are currently being digitised.
“We have recruited staff for that purpose. We have designated special areas where we are doing
all that, with the equipment and so forth, to make sure that that is happening. So that is an
ongoing process,” the minister explained.
He counselled holder of the current COVID-19 vax cards to protect them because current
protocols still demand persons produce their cards to transact business at government ministries
and agencies.

He noted that persons who operate public transport must also produce their cards if asked
by a police officer, or by anyone working on behalf of the Health Ministry.