Mansukh Mandaviya stated that India fulfils 65% of the world’s vaccine requirement.

New Delhi:

 Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday stated that India despatched medicines to 150 international locations throughout covid disaster with out rising the worth and compromising on the standard of the medicines.

Minister was talking on the inauguration of the International Symposium on Health Technology Assessment in Delhi on Friday.

“During the Covid crisis, India sent medicines to 150 countries without increasing price and compromising on the quality,” Union Health Minister stated.

India supplied assist to greater than 150 affected international locations within the type of vaccines, medical gear and medicines throughout the pandemic, Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha Harivansh stated in a Keynote handle on the twenty sixth Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) in Canberra, Australia in January.

The Deputy Chairman had stated that India facilitated the evacuation of stranded overseas nationals from completely different elements of India to round 123 international locations.

Mr Mandaviya stated that India fulfils 65% of the world’s vaccine requirement.

“Today, if there is any country in the world which is providing affordable medicines, then it’s India,” he knowledgeable.

Mr Harivansh additional added that India took an unique initiative “Vaccine Maitri” to produce COVID-19 Made-in-India vaccines to varied international locations internationally.

Under this initiative, as of the primary week of December 2022, India has provided greater than 282 million vaccine doses of COVID-19 to 101 international locations and two UN entities.

“Since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic in India, we followed a ‘whole of Government’ and ‘whole of society approach’. We took several measures for containing the spread of the virus, addressing major gaps in the availability of life-saving healthcare facilities, shoring up livelihoods and restoring normalcy in the areas such as education and employment,” he had added.

On the steps taken by the Indian authorities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, he had stated, “As regards enacting relevant legislations, the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 was amended by Parliament to provide for adequate safety and protection of healthcare personnel handling patients and the epidemic. The Essential Commodities Act, of 1955 was amended to ensure that there are no shortages of foodgrains and also to keep the commodity prices under check during a pandemic. These changes helped to ensure food security to vulnerable sections of the country through the Public Distribution System.”

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