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==Care for the Vaccines==
To ensure the optimal potency of vaccines,a careful attention is needed in handling practices at the country level. These include storage and transport of vaccines from the primary vaccine store down to the end-user at the health facility, and further down at the outreach sites.<ref name='WHO/IVB/06.10'>{{cite news|title=Temperature Sensitivity of Vaccines |date=August 2006 |publisher=[[World Health Organization]] |url=https://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF06/847.pdf |work=Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals |access-date=2007-05-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219113617/http://www.who.int/vaccines-documents/DocsPDF06/847.pdf |archive-date=2007-02-19 }}</ref> Inappropriate storage, handling and transport of vaccines won't protect patients and may lead to needless vaccine wastage.<ref name='mbphysicianresources#2_2005'>{{cite news|title=Handle Vaccines with
A "first expiry and first out" (FEFO) vaccine system is practiced to assure that all vaccines are utilized before its expiry date. Proper arrangement of vaccines and/or labeling of expiry dates are done to identify those close to expiring. Vaccine temperature is monitored twice a day (early in the morning and in the afternoon) in all health facilities and plotted to monitor break in the [[cold chain]]. Each level of health facilities has cold chain equipment for use in the storage vaccines which included cold room, freezer, refrigerator, transport box, vaccine carriers, thermometers, cold chain monitors, ice packs, temperature monitoring chart and safety collector boxes.<ref>{{cite book | title = Expanded Program on Immunization Manual | publisher = Department of Health, Philippines | year = 1995 | ___location = Manila, Philippines }}</ref>
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