Source, telegraph news on line version
An impending price rise that is likely to raise India’s
budget for a key vaccine by less than Rs 100 crore has prompted the government
to seek an international donor’s help at a time it has built a showpiece statue
for an estimated Rs 3,000 crore. Two senior health officials declined to speak
to this newspaper about the implications of the IPV price rise or reveal how
long the already procured IPV stocks are expected to last. The health ministry
will have to justify a higher budget and protect our investment for polio
eradication and secure it through continued universal IPV immunisation.” global
donor community would likely be surprised at India’s request for intervention
to address the IPV price rise. A UK media report said Britons were “outraged”
that the Indian government had spent so much money on a statue while Britain
was sending 1.17 billion pounds in overseas aid to the country. British MP
Peter Bone was quoted by The Daily Express as saying: “To take (pounds) 1.1
billion in aid from us and then at the same time spend (pounds) 330 million on
a statue is total nonsense and it is the sort of thing that drives people mad.”
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