Good News From The Ministry Of Health: Vaccine Inventory And Distribution Can Be Monitored Via The SMILE Application

Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Vaccination of the Indonesian Ministry of Health Siti Nadia Tarmizi (Photo: Press Bureau of the Presidential Secretariat via covid19.go.id)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Ministry of Health opens access to information for people who want to monitor the supply and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to all regions through the Electronic Immunization and Logistics Monitoring System (SMILE) application. electronic logistics (SMILE) which can now be accessed by the public," said Spokesperson for COVID-19 Vaccination of the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, when delivering a press statement that was virtually monitored from Jakarta, reported by Antara, Thursday, August 19. Nadia said the SMILE application was a development from the Ministry of Health's vaccination dashboard which is currently located at https://vacsin.kemkes.go.id. Nadia said the logistics recording and reporting in the SMILE application includes the batch number, expiration date of the vaccine and the logistics of the vaccination received, the number of vaccines issued, the amount vaccines used and the number of defective and expired vaccines "In the vaccine distribution process, it is recorded in the vaccine distribution application that is connected to SMILE, which will record according to the number of batch numbers, the expiration date of the vaccine received from the distributor who sent it at each level," he said.

Nadia said the number of vaccines that have arrived in Indonesia currently has reached 190 million doses in finished form and in the form of raw materials. arrived in the country," he said. Meanwhile, the number of vaccines that have been injected, said Nadia, was 84.5 million doses of vaccine, 54.9 million doses of which were the first dose and 29.5 million doses for the second dose. "If the data on vaccine allocation and logistics are not yet available in SMILE, the provincial health office can independently input the number of vaccines allocated for vaccination for a certain period," he said. .