This startup wants to modernize vaccination management

While waiting at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, Hafeth Zughayer noticed parents coming in and arguing with the nurses after learning their children had missed their polio vaccination by over two years.

He later discovered that over 20 percent of children around the world don’t receive the most basic vaccinations.

With his 15 years of expertize in business, telecoms and consultation, Zughayer cofounded Universal Baby Vaccinations (UBV) with Falastin Jaulani and Ashwaq Ghazzawy to simplify, improve and sustain vaccination procedures for children in the region, and later globally.

UBV is an app for organizing the vaccinations process.

“If parents took their child out to be vaccinated in the local vaccination centers, the app automatically connects them to the Palestine Ministry of Health (MoH) to identify the child bringing his or her vaccinations profile to the app,” Zughayer said. “The nurse then could easily update the record of the child for the vaccination that was provided without the need of any paperwork, and it will be directly synchronized into the app.”

The digital record of all vaccinations is kept both on the app and in a secure server, potentially a major benefit to refugees who lose their identification papers and vaccination booklets.

The threat of low vaccination rates is real.

Original article by Rafat Abushaban

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This startup wants to modernize vaccination management