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Bade Babu Thapa (right) with UNICEF cold chain consultant Nawaraj Khadka (left) in a cold room at the Central Vaccine Store under the Department of Health Services in Kathmandu. © UNICEF Nepal/2021/PShrestha
UNICEF's long-running efforts to assess, expand and strengthen Nepal’s cold chain capacity are proving crucial to the delivery of vaccines around the country as part of the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaign
“Getting the vaccines themselves is one part of the work, but without proper storage and transport systems, it’s not possible to take them to the community”, says Bade Babu Thapa, Senior Pharmacy Officer at the Central Vaccine Store in Kathmandu, under the Government of Nepal’s Department of Health Services, while talking about the importance of a strong cold chain – which refers to a series of precisely coordinated events in temperature-controlled environments to store, manage and transport vaccines – in ensuring the success of any immunization campaign. The Central Vaccine Store is the national-level facility responsible for storing and dispatching vaccine supplies across the country for use in immunization programmes at the community level.

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