Dr Urmila Thatte, professor and former head of clinical pharmacology at the King Edward Memorial College, Mumbai, is among the 631,471 healthcare workers across India who have received one of two Covid-19 vaccines used in the nationwide campaign until Tuesday evening.
Dr Thatte, who has been on an expert advisory panel on drug evaluation for the World Health Organisation and a former secretary of the Forum for Ethics Review Committees in India, on Tuesday took the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, Covishield. But she told
The Telegraph that she wishes she and all other beneficiaries had a choice.
I wish I had a choice. I wish all who get vaccinated have the option to choose between vaccines. Even in a pandemic, when there is an option to choose, we should get a choice.