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AAA PMK youth wing leader Anbumani Ramadoss on Wednesday urged that the integrated vaccine complex at Chengalpattu should not be privatised.
In a statement, he said reports about attempts to privatise the facility is shocking and the move is unjustifiable especially when the need for vaccines in India is increasing.
Handing over the facility to the private sector would defeat the very purpose of why the complex was formed in the first place. The complex should either be run by the Centre or taken over by the Tamil Nadu government.
Dr. Anbumani wondered why the Tamil Nadu government is hesitant to consider his suggestion of taking over the facility and instead showing interest to procure vaccines from the private sector.
TN-based HLL Biotech facilities not used for vaccine manufacturing
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TN-based HLL Biotech facilities not used for vaccine manufacturing. Image Source: IANS News
Chennai, May 12 : HLL Biotech at Chengalpet in Tamil Nadu, a sprawling 100-acre campus located 55 km from Chennai, is equipped with all modern facilities and has state-of-the-art technology to manufacture vaccines but was not used during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
There were not many takers to use the Public Sector Undertaking facility even after it floated a tender for its Integrated Vaccine Complex (IVC) to manufacture vaccines.
HLL Biotech has an annual capacity of 585 million vaccine doses and was intended to make vaccines under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) of the Indian Government. The company was formed to produce an uninterrupted supply of vaccines under the UIP. It has the state-of-the-art multi-bacterial and multi-viral facilities to meet any epidemic or p
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