A Matter of Grave Concern

 

 

Context :

Co-WIN, the app for Covid-19 vaccination  /  Business  Line  -  06 Jan 2020

 

Extract :

An extension of the existing electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN), Co-WIN (Covid-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network) is a comprehensive cloud-based IT solution for planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Covid-19 vaccination.

The Co-WIN system is an end-to-end solution that has utilities for the entire public health system from national level right up to the vaccinator level. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said that Co-WIN has the facility to automate session allocation, Aadhaar authentication to prevent malpractice, creating unique health ID for willing beneficiaries, reporting and tracking adverse events following immunisation, if any, SMSes in 12 languages to guide beneficiaries and vaccinators, QR code-based vaccination certificate issued after all doses, DigiLocker integrated for data retrieval and storing QR code-based certificate, 24x7 Helpline, including IT professionals.

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Reading this, I felt elated that this mobile app ( for Self Registration ), closely resembles my suggested app ( VacReg ), as outlined in detail in my following earlier blog / email :

Voting and Vaccination : Compare and Contrast ……………………[ 19 Oct 2020 ]

 

So I decided to register myself at :   https://www.cowin.gov.in/login ( online / no downloading of App on mobile )

First screen required me to furnish following data :

Ø  Mobile Number

Ø  Password………… Forgot ? ( no instructions re nature / alpha – alpha neumeric – no of digits )

Ø  ………………….. Captcha

       LOGIN

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Despite trying for one hour, this ( very first ) screen , would not accept my data ( same “ invalid password / username “ message keeps flashing ) and let me proceed to the next page !

I wish I knew how to take / attach a screen-shot of this page

So I clicked on link “ Contact “ – which presented a BLANK PAGE  !

 

Through this email, I urge ALL recipients to try REGISTERING and send their feedback to :

Dr HarshVardhanji {  dr.harshvardhan@sansad.nic.in }

 

Such half-cooked attempts bring in disrepute to the Covid Vaccination Campaign

Opposition leaders are bound to seize this goof-up and ask :

Is this how government expects to vaccinate 30 crore ( 300 million ) Indians in 5 months ?

 

I am deeply pained !

 

With regards,

 

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  06 Jan 2021