₹35,000 crores in the union budget to ensure free vaccines for all.Despite this, the Union government allowed private companies to set exorbitant and differential prices for vaccines and outsourced the procurement of vaccines to already stretched state governments."This will adversely impact millions of Indians.
Sir, corporate profit cannot triumph saving lives. I, therefore, urge you to not relinquish the State's moral duty in immunising citizens.
This is completely doable because India has a history of successful, large-scale immunisation programmes," he said.It is heartbreaking to witness millions of ordinary Indians scrambling to access basic healthcare, oxygen, medicines, ventilators, hospital beds and even crematoriums and cemeteries,.