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  • WHO chief thanks Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya for announcing resumption of COVID vaccine export

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday thanked Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya for announcing resumption of COVID-19 vaccine shipments to the COVAX global pool in October.

    COVAX is an initiative for equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines. “Thank you Health Minister @mansukhmandviya for announcing #India will resume crucial #COVID19 vaccine shipments to #COVAX in October. This is an important development in support of reaching the 40% vaccination target in all countries by the end of the year. #VaccinEquity,” Ghebreyesus said in a tweet.

    Thank you Health Minister @mansukhmandviya for announcing #India will resume crucial #COVID19 vaccine shipments to #COVAX in October. This is an important development in support of reaching the 40% vaccination target in all countries by the end of the year. #VaccinEquity
    — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) September 21, 2021
    Mandaviya on Monday announced that India will resume export of surplus COVID-19 vaccines in the fourth quarter of 2021 under the ‘Vaccine Maitri’ programme and to meet its commitment to the COVAX global pool, but vaccinating its own citizens remains the topmost priority of the government.

    Talking about the expected production and supply trends in the coming months, the minister said the government will receive over 30 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines in October and over 100 crore doses in the coming quarter from October-December.

    The cumulative doses administered so far across the country has crossed 82.65 crore.

    Asserting that vaccination of its citizens remains the government’s topmost priority, Mandaviya had said, “India will be resuming export of COVID-19 vaccines under Vaccine Maitri in order to fulfil the commitment of India towards COVAX in line with our motto of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’.”

    He said that the surplus supply of vaccines will be used to fulfil India’s commitment towards the world for the collective fight against COVID-19. COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the WHO.

  • Health Minister urges all AIIMS to coordinate with each other to provide best healthcare to people

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday urged all AIIMS in the country to coordinate with each other so that the best healthcare can be provided to the public.

    Mandaviya on Monday held a review meeting of six AIIMS in the country from AIIMS, New Delhi.

    “Today a review meeting of six AIIMS of the country was held from AIIMS, New Delhi. In AIIMS, there was discussion about the construction work and research of modern infrastructure and specialist departments of many diseases.

    I call upon all AIIMS in the country to coordinate with each other so that we can provide best healthcare to the public,” he said in a tweet in Hindi.

  • India to resume export of surplus Covid vaccines in October: Union Health Minister

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday announced that India, starting October, will resume the export of Covid vaccines that was abruptly halted when the devastating second wave of the pandemic struck India in April this year.

    Mandaviya said that the exports of the vaccine will resume under the “Vaccine Maitri” programme in the fourth quarter starting October 2021- while emphasising that inoculating the Indian population remains the government’s top priority.

    “India will be resuming the export of vaccines under “Vaccine Maitri” in order to fulfill the commitment of India towards COVAX, in line with our motto Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,” said Mandaviya, adding that the “surplus supply” of vaccines will be shared with other countries.  

    COVAX is co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and WHO and has been envisaged for pooling vaccines for poor countries.

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    The minister said that in October, the Centre is expecting a supply of 30 crore from different vaccine makers which will go further up in later months.

    So far, nearly 81 crore Covid vaccine doses have been administered in India and the national vaccination drive against coronavirus seems to have picked up the pace for about a month.

    Meanwhile, the announcement of the resumption of vaccine exports by India comes ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the US next week where vaccines are likely to be discussed at a summit of the leaders of the Quad countries – India, Japan, and Australia, apart from the host nation.

    The WHO had said last week that it was in constant dialogue with Indian officials to resume supplies to COVAX. 

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    “We have been assured that supply will restart this year,” senior WHO official Bruce Aylward had announced.

    Till mid-April, India had donated or sold nearly 6.6 crore Covid vaccine doses to about 100 different countries, before deciding to put a halt on the exports of the crucial supply as the infections exploded countrywide.

    For several months, the vaccination drive in the country had also not picked up the desired pace owing to the supply issues and also, as some experts put it, because of faulty inoculation strategies but have gathered pace now for the last few weeks when the average daily vaccination has reached nearly 80 lakh mark.

    The government hopes to be able to inoculate all its 94 crore adult population with two doses of vaccines each by the year-end.

  • Centre keen to provide efficient, inclusive healthcare to people of Jammu and Kashmir: Mandaviya

    He made these remarks during a visit to Baramulla district as part of the central government #39;s public outreach programme which aims to evoke public feedback pertaining to developmental concerns.

  • Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya calls for major push to COVID vaccine drive on PM’s birthday

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday called for a major push to the COVID-19 vaccination drive during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday on Friday, saying it would the perfect gift for him.

    ‘सबको वैक्सीन, मुफ़्त वैक्सीन’ की PM @NarendraModi जी ने देश को सौग़ात दी है!कल हम सबके प्रिय प्रधानमंत्री जी का जन्मदिन है, चलो #VaccineSeva कर जिन्होंने वैक्सीन नहीं ली है, ऐसे अपनों को, परिजनों को और समाज के सभी तबकों को टीका लगवाकर, उनको जन्मदिन का उपहार देते हैं।
    — Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) September 16, 2021
    He also called on people who have not taken the vaccine till now to get inoculated. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a gift of ‘vaccine for all, free vaccine’ to the country. Tomorrow is the birthday of our beloved prime minister, lets do #VaccineSeva by helping all unvaccinated people including their loved ones, family members and all sections of the society by getting them vaccinated. This would be a birthday gift for the prime minister,” he said in a tweet in Hindi on Thursday.

    The BJP has asked its units across the country to help get a large number of people vaccinated on the occasion of prime minister’s birthday. The cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered so far in the country has crossed 77 crore, the Union Health Ministry said in a tweet.

  • Who will replace Vijay Rupani? Speculation over Nitin Patel, Mansukh Mandaviya as next Gujarat CM

    By PTI

    AHMEDABAD: Names of Gujarat Deputy CM Nitin Patel, state agriculture minister R C Faldu and Union ministers Purshottam Rupala and Mansukh Mandaviya are doing rounds amid speculation over who will succeed Vijay Rupani as Gujarat chief minister.

    Rupani resigned as CM on Saturday, over a year ahead of Assembly elections in the state, without assigning any specific reason.

    “Names of Patel, Faldu, Rupala and Mandaviya are being discussed. But it is impossible to say who will be the chief minister as the decision will be taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi” a party leader said.

    When Anandiben Patel resigned as chief minister in August 2016, there was talk that Patel would succeed her, but in a last-minute decision, Rupani was chosen for the top post.

    The demand to make Nitin Patel chief minister began to trend on social media after Rupani’s resignation.

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    Union health minister Mandaviya, who like Patel belongs to the influential Patidar community, is also considered a front-runner.

    Leaders of the community had demanded recently that the next chief minister should be a Patidar.

    State BJP president C R Paatil, who originally hails from Maharashtra, is unlikely to be considered for the CM’s post, sources said.

    The BJP had replaced Anandiben Patel a year before Assembly polls were due.

    It has now done the same with Rupani and his successor may lead the party in the December 2022 state elections, the sources said.

  • Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya meets WHO chief, senior OECD officials

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday held an informal meeting with WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and senior officials of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the second day of G20 Health Ministers’ meeting and discussed matters of global health importance.

    “Had an informal meeting with @DrTedros, Director-General@WHO, Mr Nick Tomlinson, Global Health Advisor, @OECD and Mr Stefano Scarpetta, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD on the 2nd day of the G20 Health Ministers’ meeting,” the minister tweeted.

    “Our dialogue pertained to matters of global health importance. This was in addition to India’s interventions in the 2nd and 3rd sessions of ministerial discussion,” he said in another tweet.

    Mandaviya had met his counterparts of UK, Brazil And Italy on Sunday. Mandaviya is on a four-day visit to Rome in Italy for the G20 health ministers’ meeting till September 7.

  • Mandaviya meets health ministers of UK, Brazil, Italy on giving priority in travel to vaccinated Indian students

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday said he had an interaction with his Italian counterpart Roberto Speranza on giving priority in travel to vaccinated Indian students enrolled in educational institutions in Italy and on enhancing bilateral cooperation in the field of health and medicine.

    Mandaviya is in Rome, Italy, for the G20 health ministers’ meeting. In a series of tweets, he said, “Had an interaction with Mr Roberto Speranza, Health Minister, Italy to enhance the bilateral cooperation between the two nations in the field of health and medicine.”

    “Discussed giving priority in travel to Indian vaccinated students enrolled in Italian educational institutions. Also, invited Italian pharmaceutical companies to invest and expand their business in India,” he added.

    In another tweet, the minister said he invited UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Sajid Javid to visit India and discussed with him a roadmap for a new health dialogue between the two countries.

    “UK appreciated India’s management of COVID & congratulated on administering first #COVID19 vaccine dose to more than half the population,” he stated.

    “Our discussions included ways to promote digital health & enhancing access to new models of telemedicine,” Mandaviya said of his meeting with Javid, adding that he highlighted various areas of cooperation in the field of healthcare.

    Mandaviya also met his Brazilian counterpart. “Had an excellent discussion with Mr Marcelo Queiroga, Minister of Health for Brazil, for better cooperation in healthcare. We spoke about One Health & the introduction of Nano-Urea for better results. Also, offered India’s full support to aid Brazil’s fight against TB,” he tweeted.

  • India administers over 1 crore Covid vaccine doses, highest in a day

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: India administered more than one crore COVID-19 vaccine doses on Friday, the highest ever in a day, the Union Health Ministry said.

    According to the CoWIN portal, the COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country has crossed 62,17,06,882 doses.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed those behind the vaccination drive and also praised people getting inoculated.

    Record vaccination numbers today!Crossing 1 crore is a momentous feat. Kudos to those getting vaccinated and those making the vaccination drive a success.
    — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 27, 2021
    “Record vaccination numbers today! Crossing 1 crore is a momentous feat. Kudos to those getting vaccinated and those making the vaccination drive a success,” he tweeted.

    Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, in a tweet, said, “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas. This is the same effort by which the country has crossed the figure of more than 1 crore vaccines in one day. This is the result of tireless work of health workers and PM Narendra Modi.”

    According to the CoWIN portal, 1,00,64,032 jabs were administered on Friday.

    On August 17, over 88 lakh doses of the vaccine were administered across the country.

    A total of 30,85,06,160 people in the age group of 18-44 years have received vaccine doses while 23,98,99,849 beneficiaries in the age group of over 45 years have received jabs, according to the health ministry.

    The vaccination exercise as a tool to protect the most vulnerable population groups in the country from COVID-19 continues to be regularly reviewed and monitored at the highest level, the ministry said.

  • Citing health minister’s letter, Sisodia claims Centre doesn’t want probe into oxygen shortage deaths 

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday said that Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has told them that there is no need to form a panel to probe oxygen shortage-related deaths in the national capital as the Supreme Court-appointed task force is there to look into the matter.

    Sisodia said he had written to the Union Health Minister regarding the formation of the panel.

    Delhi LG Anil Baijal has twice rejected the city government’s demand to form the panel, he said.

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    “The Health Minister has written to us saying that there is a Supreme Court-appointed task force to probe the matter and has said there is no need for a probe panel. But the task force has the mandate to probe the demand and supply issues for the pandemic,” he said in an online briefing.

    Mandaviya has said that out of the 12 points for reference for the SC panel, five are related to oxygen, the deputy chief minister noted and pointed out that none of these five points pertain to oxygen shortage-related deaths.

    “Such a big fraud has never happened in the country. If the SC-appointed panel is probing the deaths, why did the Centre ask states to give data on oxygen-related fatalities,” Sisodia said.

    Centre does not want a probe into the deaths due to oxygen shortage because truth of their negligence will come out, he alleged.