Digital health ID not mandatory for accessing Covid vaccine
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digital health identity will not be mandatory for vaccination against COVID-19 and multiple other identity
proofs can be used by a person to receive the shots though the government plans
to utilize digital health IDs as well for the process once the vaccine is available, the health ministry
clarified on Tuesday.
“The National Digital Health Mission as it exists today does not make digital
IS or health ID mandatory to receive service under the digital ecosystem that
NDHM has created. Therefore, to say that it would become mandatory for
vaccination and those who do not have health IDs will be deprived is probably
not the right interpretation,” health secretary Rajesh Bhushan said.
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“Health
IDs would be utilized. In those cases where the individual recipient or
beneficiary does not have a health ID, there are multiple other IDs that can be
utilized as is the case in the present NDHM,” Bhushan added.
He underlined the process would be almost like an “electoral scenario” where
multiple IDs are prescribed beforehand so that no one is deprived of the
benefits of either voting on the day of the election or vaccination on the
designated day.
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