Public sector vaccine institutes to be revived, declares Azad
July 1st, 2009 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) The government Wednesday announced plans to revive the public sector vaccine producing institutes in the country.
“An oversight committee has already prepared a roadmap for revamping the vaccine manufacturing facility at CRI Kasauli,” Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad told reporters here.
The Central Research Institute (CRI) in Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh, BCG Vaccine Laboratory in Guindy in Chennai, and Pasteur Institute of India in Coonoor were closed by former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss on the ground that they did not follow the international safety norms.
Azad said the government was introducing a bill in parliament to comprehensively amend the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, to make the process of organ transplantation less cumbersome for genuine cases.
Also, a bill will be introduced to amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Act (1940) for the creation of a Central Drug Authority. “It will be an autonomous body to regulate drugs and pharmaceutical products,” he added.
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