"Cold chain" refers to the process used to maintain optimal conditions during the transport, storage, and handling of vaccines, starting at the manufacturer and ending with the administration of the vaccine to the client. It is recommended by WHO, vaccine must be stored and transported at all times within the temperature range of +2 oC to +8 oC(for some vaccine, temperature is below -20 oC). Stability of vaccine is maintained by cold chain system.
Importance of maintaining the cold chain
Our cold chain system
Vaccine storage facility in factory
Incepta Vaccine Ltd has storage area of sufficient capacity to allow orderly storage of material and their speedy disposal. It has well designed, technologically modern, several cold rooms to store vaccine bulk, in process material and finished material.
All the cold rooms are duly provided with alarm system for detecting temperature deviation and are under continuous monitoring with wireless data loggers, an electronic device that can record each minute reading to ensure the proper temperature of storage in cold rooms.
The following cold rooms are built at the storage area of vaccine facility -
Vaccine storage facility in central warehouse and distribution point -
To store vaccines in central ware house in distribution area, there is a big cold room of 200 square feet area that is sufficient to store 500 million doses at +2 oC to +8 oC.
At present we have 20 distribution points to cover whole country. All the depots are self sufficient with cold room to store vaccines at +2 oC to +8 oC. Back-up power supply is provided for emergency cases.
Beside this, we have sufficient refrigerators in all depots to support in any emergency cases like any disturbance of cold room or to prevent random use of cold room.