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Biometric Fingerprint Sensors Help Track Vaccination Patients in Developing Countries

Enable patients in Kenya, Uganda, Benin and Zambia to be identified to track their vaccination history and stop vaccine waste

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Biometric fingerprint sensors developed by recently acquired ASSA ABLOY company Lumidigm are enabling patients in Kenya, Uganda, Benin and Zambia to be identified quickly and reliably to track their vaccination history and stop vaccine waste at 321 clinics across Africa. Without proper and reliable means to identify which patients have received inoculations, vaccine wastage rates can exceed 50% in some African clinics. Now, patients returning to clinics in Kenya, Uganda, Benin and Zambia can...

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