Centre Should Procure Vaccines For All. Anything Else is Contrary to Efficiency and Equity
Whose needs are greater: that of the Centre or the private buyer? How did the Centre arrive at such an arrangement?
Beneficiaries wait to receive a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, at a district government hospital, Balurghat in South Dinajpur, Monday, May 31, 2021. Photo: PTI
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The Centre must immediately adopt a policy of national uniform pricing of COVID-19 vaccines for procurement by the Government of India. They must accept the primary responsibility of purchasing and making available vaccine supplies to all states, enabling universal free vaccination.
Amid vaccine shortage, this manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu is lying idle for 9 years
If functional, the IVC has the capacity to produce one billion vaccines annually. This means it can cater to a large part of the demand of Tamil Nadu as well as the rest of the country
Akshaya Nath | May 28, 2021 | Updated 14:19 IST
IVC was set up by HLL Biotech and is under the Union Health Ministry. (Representational image)
Centre s state-of-the-art public sector vaccine manufacturing plant, Integrated Vaccine Complex (IVC), in Chengalpattu, near Chennai, has not only been lying idle but also not produced a single vaccine in the past nine years.
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