Fake Covid Vaccination Certificates Generated From CoWIN In Madhya Pradesh
NDTV
After contacting a few individuals listed as fake beneficiaries, the health department personnel discovered that all of them were from outside Madhya Pradesh.
Investigations have been launched at various levels in the Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh following the discovery of supposed abuse of the central government's CoWIN portal, a centralised digital platform for COVID-19 vaccine registration. This was allegedly used to dispense fraudulent COVID vaccination certificates to several recipients.
The alleged misuse of CoWIN was exposed on May 30, when a beneficiary requested his COVID-19 vaccination certificate from the local health department. Notably, there has been no vaccination activity at government facilities in the state for the past four to five months. Despite this, an admin login to the portal indicated that, via the portal misuse, fake vaccination sessions had been established at the sub-health centre (SHC) in the Soni area under the Mehgaon block of Bhind to distribute counterfeit vaccination certificates.
A subsequent field investigation determined that no vaccination session had taken place at the SHC in question on the relevant date (May 30, 2023). The fraudulent vaccination session visible on the portal was then terminated by health department personnel, and a list of 36 supposed beneficiaries was obtained.
The whole issue was then reported to the district's Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) and the district collector Satish Kumar S. At the collector's directive, the matter was escalated to the Mission Director (National Health Mission, MP), Director (Vaccination-NHM MP), and the district police superintendent for a comprehensive examination.
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