Chennai: As the Tamilnadu government is exploring all possible avenues to get Covid vaccines, PMK Youth Wing leader and Rajya Sabha member Dr Anbumani Ramadoss has urged the State government to take over the Integrated Vaccine complex at Chengalpattu for producing vaccines.
In a letter to Health Minister Ma Subramanian, he said the State government should take over the complex, complete the remaining work on a fast track basis and produce vaccines, including for Covid-19.
He wanted the State government to initiate talks with the Centre, sign an MoU to take over the complex and make Tamilnadu a hub for vaccine supply.
He said 90 per cent of the work in the complex was over and the State needs to spend only a few hundred crores–which will be less when compared to the amount required to source the Covid vaccines–to commission the complex.
Dr Anbumani said the facility can produce seven different types of vaccines–Liquid Pentavalent Vaccine (LPV), Hepatitis-B-Vaccine, Haemophilus Influenza Type B, Rabies Vaccine, Japanese Encephalitis E Vaccine, BCG Vaccine and Measles and Rubella Vaccine, besides the Covid-19 vaccine, needed in India and the world.
The Tamilnadu government had already urged the Centre to take immediate steps to commission the complex for producing Covid vaccine drugs.