JS body urges govt owned company to take immediate measures to produce Covid-19 vaccine
The parliamentary body on health ministry today strongly recommended Essential Drugs, a government owned company, to take immediate measures to produce Covid-19 vaccine within six to nine months in order to bring all citizens of the country under vaccination as soon as possible.
The health ministry in the meeting at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban informed the parliamentary watchdog that they have formed two committees, one advisory and another technical, on producing Covid-19 vaccine at Essential Drug Company's Gopalganj Unit, meeting sources said.
The coronavirus vaccine will be produced at the Essential Drug's laboratory as fill and finish product.
Fill and finish is the final manufacturing step in the overall drug manufacturing process. In the pharmaceutical industry, fill and finish (also referred to as fill-finish) is the process of filling vials with vaccine and finishing the process of packaging the medicine for distribution.
Members of the advisory committee are the Minister of Health, Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Health, DG, Directorate General of Health Services, Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and Managing Director of Essential Drugs, said the source.
The terms of reference of this committee is to advise the technical committee on production of Covid-19 and to review the recommendations of the technical committee and get the approval of the Prime Minister for undertaking vaccine production activities.
Director General, DGHS was made convener of the technical committee Members of the committee are DG, directorate general of drug administration, Additional Secretary (Health Service), Health Ministry, Director, IEDCR, Director, (Planning and Research), DGHS, Line Director (MNC&H), DGHS, Dean of the Department of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka and Managing Director, Essential Drugs.
The committee will take steps to produce effective and safe vaccines in the country, review the recommendations and make recommendations to the government, take steps to increase the country's capacity in vaccine production and make arrangements for quality control of the production and storage and usage levels.
In addition to these two government committees, the parliamentary committee has also formed a separate committee led by AFM Ruhal Haque, a member of the parliamentary watchdog, to oversee the overall measures to produce the corona vaccine in Essential Drug.
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