A digital biometric-based vaccination management system for newborn children has been launched in Kenya. The biometric was developed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), NEC Corporation ( a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation), and Nagasaki University in Japan. With this, medics will be now tracking children’s vaccination until they attain five years. […]
One in five children worldwide are zero-dose or under-vaccinated leaving them vulnerable to a range of preventable diseases such as polio, measles and cholera according to a recent report by UNICEF. This was heighted by Covid19 pandemic which saw at least 67 million children missing out entirely or partially on routine immunization between 2019 and […]
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), NEC Corporation Japan and Nagasaki University have developed a digital biometric-based vaccination management system for newborn children in Kenya. The system aims ease the process of vaccination and enhance proper management of data. Further it will promote the administration of appropriate vaccinations as the system would also be used […]