The SC will instruct the Center to answer the plea for the reinstatement of the vaccine PSU to boost Covid19 vaccination

New Delhi, December 12, 2021:

On Monday, the Supreme Court instructed the Center to revive the public sector unit of the vaccine and submit an answer on the plea of ​​trying to harness its full capacity by issuing a purchase order.

Bench, consisting of Judges DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna, will respond to the plea within four weeks after Tushar Mehta, Under Secretary of Justice, states that notification is not required as this is in the area of ​​policy making. I requested the center.

“I would like to know the government policy … SG has appeared at the center and stated that a response will be submitted within 4 weeks. A rehearing may be submitted within 3 weeks thereafter. The complaint is After you’re done, list the issues. “Bench said.

An additional solicitor general, Aishwarya Bhati, has also appeared in the center.

Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves has appeared for the petitioner.

The Supreme Court has granted functional autonomy to public sector vaccines, submitted by former IAS Amulya Ratna Nanda, All India Drug Action Network, Low Cost Standard Therapeutics, and Medico Friend Circle, with public funding in particular. I have heard allegations requesting the use of these PSUs after being vaccinated. To make them compliant with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

The petition grants these PSUs the “full autonomy” envisioned in the 2010 Javid Chowdhary Report on Vaccine Production in the Public Sector to ensure full resurgence and smooth functioning in the future. I said it should be.

He said PSUs should not be excluded from vaccine production or government vaccine procurement as long as quality and affordability are guaranteed.

In reference to the 2016 Supreme Court’s order that the government agreed to take action to revive the PSU, the petition was written by a vaccine manufacturing facility that was meeting 80-85% of demand before the outage. He said he was still sluggish. To no avail despite their modernization and capacity expansion.

“India has the oldest vaccine PSU, 25 of which are under the British Raj Empire. By the 1980s, as part of a global effort by the world, the mortality rate of Indian children Twenty-nine PSUs were established solely for the sole purpose of independence and self-sufficiency in vaccine production of the Universal Immunity Program, introduced in 1986 to prevent morbidity.  ET HealthWorld