Use sovereign rights to grant compulsory license for vaccine, medicines: SJM to govt
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“We understand that the government needs to use the public health safeguards in the Patents Act and permit more companies to produce these medicines in the coming days,” Mahajan said in the statement, explaining that India would require around 2 billion doses of vaccine in the next 6 months and there is a need to multiply these efforts.
AFP
The SJM has launched a “Digital Signature Campaign for Universal Access of Vaccine and Medicines”.
Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Monday suggested the government to use its sovereign rights to grant the compulsory license to other pharma manufacturers to produce vaccine and medicines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Pushing for the involvement of more companies in manufacturing vaccines and medicines like Remdesivir, it termed patent protection as a “major barrier” to the generic