Summary:
He said that the country is facing an acute shortage of vaccine doses with thousands of vaccination centres across the country being shut for want of doses. Several states have run out of stocks of vaccines and remaining states have stocks left only for three-five days. Chadha implored the GoI to adopt 'Vaccine Nationalism', and prioritise vaccinating the entire 135 crore in India before earning trivialinternational laurels. While adopting Vaccine Nationalism, he urged the Central government to keep in mind 'Vaccine Universalisation' while giving out vaccines. It is important that the Government of India urgently understands that we need Vaccine Universalisation," he said..