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Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 7
RSS affiliated Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) organised an online and offline protest against Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation in the National Capital on Friday.
This comes after their statement of not being in favour of sharing vaccine formula with India and other developing countries .
SJM said that at a time when the whole humanity is reeling under century s worst pandemic, and when there is an acute shortage of essential medicines, and vaccination is considered to be the only option for safeguarding the large populations, such kind of attempts to block equitable access to vaccines and medicines are not just deplorable, are also against the humanity .
RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) called for the facilitation of technology transfer of vaccines, including the trade secrets to all potential manufacturers to scale up production of Covaxin and Covishield
“Introduction of the competition is the best way to lower the prices. Patent protection is the major barrier to the generic production of these medicines,” SJM said in a statement Sunday, proposing the government to use the public health safeguards in the Patents Act and permit more companies to produce these medicines.
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