Digital Polio Vaccination System – A Proposal to Make Polio Free Pakistan

Information technology has revolutionized the health care sector over the last two decades. While other countries are integrating advanced technologies into their health care system, Pakistan is lagging and making very little progress in adapting to this change. Pakistani dilemma over polio virus is a mixture of mismanagement, illiteracy and rigid public behaviors. Polio seems to be a typical Pakistani issue that tends to fade away from time to time but is not going anywhere soon. The proposed Digital Polio Vaccination System seeks to mitigate the mismanagement problem of the polio virus dilemma of Pakistan. Moreover, it seeks to eliminate outdated practices like wall chalking and paper-based recordkeeping with more advanced practices like QR tags/stickers and digital record-keeping. The results will be a better overall system that can help us eradicate the polio virus from Pakistan.