Vaccine wastage in The Gambia: a prospective observational study

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Type of wastage for Lyophilised vaccines

Vaccine	hf	Number of doses (Actual numbers)				Type of vaccine wastage (Percentages^a)
Vaccine	hf	Received	Opened	Immunised	Total wasted	Expiry	VVM	breakage	Missing	Unused	Other
Discard after 6 h
BCG	C01	3660	3260	2172	1094	0	0	0	0.3	99.5	0.2
	F01	780	800	218	582	0	0	0	0	100	0
	L01	1300	1600	543	1057	0	0	0	0	99.7	0.3
	N01	820	860	469	411	0	0	4.9	0	95.1	0
Measles	C01	5400	5082	5020	230	0	0	0	0	100	0
	F01	750	720	579	173	0	0	0	0	94.2	5.8
	L01	1360	1660	1451	254	0	0	0	0	100	0
	N01	950	770	656	131	0	0	0	0	100	0
Yellow	C01	2560	2420	2098	376	0	0	2.7	0	94.7	2.6
fever	F01	490	500	291	223	0	0	4.5	0	95.5	0
	L01	970	990	650	339	0	0	0	0	97.9	2.1
	N01	500	520	431	120	0	0	0	0	91.7	8.3

tOPV switched to bOPV from mid-April, IPV introduced in Apr 2016 during the study, initially 10 dose without VVM, replaced with a 10-dose vial with VMM, others include spillage, breakage of vaccine diluent etc. hf health facility, ^apercentage = (number doses wasted in each category/total wasted for that vaccine)X 100

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