The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on November 30 said that the creation of Unique Health IDs through vaccinations on CoWIN was consent-based, in response to a Rajya Sabha question on health ID provision through Covid-19 vaccinations. "Yes, there is a provision to issue Unique Health IDs (UHIDs) through COVID-19 vaccination certificates through Co-WIN for those vaccinated beneficiaries who have provided Aadhaar as Prescribed Photo ID Document during verification prior to vaccination and authenticated using Aadhaar along with consent to generate Unique Health ID (UHID)" — Minister of State for MoHFW In its response, the MoHFW also cited consent recorded for the same through the vaccinator module of the CoWIN platform - it is to be noted that this is only visible on the vaccinator module and not the user-facing beneficiary module of CoWIN. There have been reported…
