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Eliminating redundancies
in the regulatory process
and creating efficiency in
the approval pathway is
critical to ensure that the
country realizes benefits of
the current pipeline of high
value vaccines
How do you react to
the statements that
vaccine industry is
a bubble created by
lobbyists to earn
bucks? There are
also few who say
that immunization
campaigns is
marketing for MNCs?
There is global evidence
on impact of vaccines in
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reducing disease burden
and the health economics
are well established. In
a high transmissibility
environment such as
India, vaccines are
an import part of the
Government’s arsenal
to address the looming
problem of communicable
diseases. The polio
vaccine success in India
is globally recognized
as a landmark effort
that has successfully
eradicated a once dreaded
disease. While I strongly
believe that public health
stakeholders should
not be deterred by such
comments, I would also
recommend that we adopt
a data driven approach to
putting any such concerns
to rest. As a country, we