Three principles of capacity management that will be useful to any government agency planning for and implementing the vaccination
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With the approval of vaccines manufactured by Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech, the rollout of the Covid vaccination program has started in India. For obvious reasons, the government would like to the administer the vaccine as fast as possible. However, as the slow rollout of the vaccination drives in European countries and the US shows, this is a difficult and challenging task.
All the challenges of distribution and the eventual vaccination can be summarized in one word: capacity, which means only so much can be done in a day or a week. Broadly, five types of capacities are relevant here: to manufacture the vaccines, to manufacture syringes, to store the vaccine in hospitals and health care centers, to distribute vaccine throughout the country and to administer the vaccines. This article will outline three broad principles of capacity management that will be useful to any government agency planning for and implementing the vaccination.
[This article has been published with permission from IIM Bangalore. www.iimb.ac.in Views expressed are personal.]