Patents must not impede pandemic response

Patents must not impede pandemic response
K Srinath Reddy
© Provided by The Financial Express
That argument flounders when we consider that India, one of the two proponents of the proposal to WTO, supplies over 60% of the vaccines for the universal immunisation programmes for women and children.
Late at night on April 27, I got a call from a BBC Radio station asking if I was prepared to take part in a discussion on the South-Africa-India proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on waiver of intellectual property rights as part of the global pandemic response. Despite the late hour, I agreed because of the importance of the topic. Pitted against me, in what turned out to be a debate, was a Swiss patents lawyer who represents pharmaceutical companies.

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