Covid-19 Geçici Aşılama Kliniklerinin Atanmasına Sezgisel Bir Yaklaşım

Öz

Covid-19 virüsü nedeniyle Dünya Sağlık Örgütü tarafından 2020 yılında pandemi ilan edildi. Çeşitli ülkelerde, Covid-19 virüsüne karşı insan vücuduna bağışıklık kazandıran çok sayıda aşının üretimi çalışmaları halen devam etmektedir. Bu virüsle baş etmek için toplu aşılama çalışmaları yapılmaktadır. Toplu aşılama, aşıları ulaştırma ve süreç yönetimi açısından çok zor ve karmaşık bir iştir. Tüm hastaneler ve diğer sağlık merkezleri insanları aşılamak için kullanılsa da, sağlık merkezlerindeki Covid-19 hastalarını diğer hastalardan ayırmak ve aşıya daha hızlı erişim sağlanması için geçici aşı klinikleri de düşünülebilir. Bu çalışmada, İstanbul/ Türkiye'de yer alan bir ilçenin altı bölgesine hizmet verecek geçici aşı kliniklerinin aday yerlere atamaları incelenmiştir. Problemin doğrusal formülasyonu verilerek, Covid-19 aşılaması için çoklu tesis yerleşim problemi, revize edilmiş sezgisel tasarruf algoritması ile araştırılmıştır. Buna ek olarak, daha uygun maliyetli atama sonuçları incelenmiştir. Bölgenin tüm taleplerinin karşılanmak zorunda olunmadığı durumda toplam maliyeti gözlemlemek için Lagrange gevşetmesi kullanılmış ve ana modelle karşılaştırma yapılmıştır. Sonuçlar gelecekteki geçici merkezleri atama çalışmalarına rehberlik etmeyi amaçlamaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Covid-19
• Sezgisel Tasarruf Algoritması
• Lagrange Gevşetmesi
• Çoklu Tesis Yerleşim Problemi
• Geçici Aşılama Kliniği

A Heuristic Approach for Assignments of Covid-19 Temporary Vaccination Clinics

Abstract

Due to the Covid-19 virus, a pandemic is declared by World Health Organization in 2020. In various countries, studies on the production of many vaccines that give immunity to the human body against the Covid-19 virus still continue. Mass vaccination has been carried out to deal with this virus. This process is a very difficult and complex task in terms of fast transportation and process management. Although all hospitals and other health centers are used to vaccinate people, temporary vaccination clinics can also be considered to separate Covid-19 patients in health centers from other patients and provide faster access to the vaccine. In this study, the location assignments of temporary vaccination clinics that will serve six regions of a district in Istanbul/Turkey are examined. The linear formulation of the problem is given, and the multi-facility location problem for Covid-19 vaccination is investigated with the revised saving heuristic algorithm. In addition, more cost-effective assignment results more examined and compared with the main model using Lagrange relaxation to observe the total cost of not assigning all demands of regions. The results are intended to guide future temporary center assignment studies.

Keywords

• Covid 19
• Saving Heuristic Algorithm
• Lagrange Relaxation
• Multi-Facility Location Problem
• Temporary Vaccination Clinic

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