HLL Biotech, which runs the Chengalpattu Integrated Vaccine Complex, invited bids from private players to revive the plant in January. But no concrete plan yet.
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Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
For revival of the plant it would be better that it is given on long term lease to any company having good experience in making vaccines. One name that comes to mind is SII, other companies are also there who may have long experience in manufacturing vaccines.
“HLL Biotech Limited, the central government enterprise” – this says it all! Like the best-forgotten IDPL and its sisters, this plant’s designers would never have heard about good manufacturing practices or cleanliness and its corridors and staircases would be (if not already, after it is opened) full of spits and paan smears! Thank God, they are not making any vaccines! It is best if it is sold off to a private entity!
For revival of the plant it would be better that it is given on long term lease to any company having good experience in making vaccines. One name that comes to mind is SII, other companies are also there who may have long experience in manufacturing vaccines.
An interesting read.. We need to manufacture and distribute more vaccines.
And get more into the arms of Indians.
“HLL Biotech Limited, the central government enterprise” – this says it all! Like the best-forgotten IDPL and its sisters, this plant’s designers would never have heard about good manufacturing practices or cleanliness and its corridors and staircases would be (if not already, after it is opened) full of spits and paan smears! Thank God, they are not making any vaccines! It is best if it is sold off to a private entity!