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. 2020 Apr 25;20:556. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-08637-1

Table 5.

Vaccine wastage rates reported from India and globally

Author State Level Wastage rates for vaccines (%)
BCG OPV DPT HBV LPV DT TT IPV Measles MR MMR
India
 Unicef (2010) [2] UP OR 58 40 19 20 26
HP OR 65 75 58 57 53 58
TN OR 65 46 20 30 32 35
MH OR 54 51 35 37 55 44
AS OR 68 56 34 41 41
Pooled OR 60.9 47.4 26.8 33.1 33.7 35.1
 Chinnakali P et al. (2012) [6] Delhi OR 70.9 48.1 38.6 57.3 62.8 39.9 37.5
 Mukherjee et al. (2013) [7] UP Storea 50.8 35.7 19.6 46.0 54.1 31.7
Bihar Storea 58.8 46.9 24.1 33.6 34.1 22.3
WB Storea 45.5 66.7 60.5 46.2 55.4 28.3
Goa Storea 56.3 36.3 20.8 37.2 29.3 28.4
Pooled Storea 49.3 52.7 38.9 39.1 48.0 27.9
 Mehta S et al. (2013) [8] GJ Storea 45 25 16 21 25
 Shah HD et al. (2016) [9] GJ Storea 42.5 40.9 30.7 35.8 40.4
 Patel PB et al. (2016) [10] GJ Storea 13.6 8.5
 Duttagupta C et al. (2017) [11] KA Storea 64.6 41.4 50.2 24.5 32.5
 Gupta V et al. (2015) [12] HR Storeb 77.9 28.9 46.7 38.6 7.4 36.8 41.2
 Daya P et al. (2015) [13] PD Storeb 2.4 8.4 5.3 4.2 46.5 1.4
 Sharma G et al. (2016) [14] RJ Storeb 21.3 29.4 12.7 9.2 9.3 27.6
 Parmar D et al. (2016) [4] MH Storeb 22.9 6.7 3.4 6.5 6.13 11
 Tiwari R et al. (2017) [15] MP Storeb 20.7 14.6 15.6 10.5 5.2 7.0 10.4 21.6
Other countries
 Guichard S et al. (2010) [16] BG Storea 84.4 45.1 34.8 68.6
 Wallace AS et al. (2017) [17] Nigeria Storea 22.5 22.5 18 21 28 27
OR 30 35 21 22 30 23
 Usuf E et al. (2018) [18] Gambia Storea 54.9 4.4 0.1 1.9 2.5 2.0 5.1 15.6

AS Assam, BG Bangladesh, GJ Gujarat, HP Himachal Pradesh, HR Haryana, KA Karnataka, MH Maharashtra, MP Madhya Pradesh, PD Puducherry, RJ Rajasthan, TN Tamil Nadu, UP Uttar Pradesh, WB West Bengal

aVaccine store and outreach combined

bSingle facility immunization clinic