{"id":16579,"date":"2020-12-28T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=16579"},"modified":"2020-12-28T19:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T13:56:02","slug":"dr-harsh-vardhan-inaugurates-countrys-first-pneumococcal-conjugate-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=16579","title":{"rendered":"Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates Country\u2019s First Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates Country\u2019s First Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
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\n\u201cIndigenous Vaccine also a step towards Atmanirbhar Bharat, being Vocal For Local\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare today inaugurated India\u2019s first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). The vaccine \u201cPneumosil\u201d has been developed by the Serum Institute of India Private Limited (SIIPL) in collaboration with partners like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Recognizing SIIPLas the world\u2019s largest manufacturer of vaccines by number of doses and its contribution to India\u2019s economy, Dr. Harsh Vardhan remarked that Serum Institute\u2019s Vaccines are used in 170 countries and every third child in the world is immunized with the manufacturer\u2019s Vaccine. He reminded the audience that SIIPL developed and got license of first indigenous Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) from Government of India during COVID-19 pandemic lock-downin line with Prime Minister Sh. Narendra Modi ji\u2019s vision of \u2018Atmanirbhar Bharat\u2019. He also mentioned about the extraordinary efforts of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare in this endeavour to make Indiaself-reliantin PCV.<\/p>\n

Detailing the achievements of SIIPL in tailoring a vaccine for India\u2019s needs, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said, \u201cSerum Institute\u2019s first Indigenous Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine will be available in the market under brand name \u201cPneumosil<\/em>\u201d at an affordable price in single dose (vial and pre-filled syringe) and Multidose (vial) presentations.Pneumosil<\/em>\u00a0has been extensively evaluated in 5 randomized controlled clinical trials and has demonstrated comparable safety and immunogenicity against licensed pneumococcal vaccines across diverse populations of India and Africa, where\u00a0Pneumosil<\/em>\u00a0was administered to adults, toddlers and infants using different vaccination schedules.\u201d\u201cDuring clinical trials,\u00a0Pneumosil<\/em>was found to be safe and effective in the prevention of Pneumonia disease and based on which\u00a0Pneumosil<\/em>\u00a0has been licensed by Drugs Controller General (India) in July 2020 after approval from Subject Expert Committee (SEC),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the Prime Minister\u2019s commitment of Atmanirbhar Bharat and his vision of \u2018Making In India for the World\u2019, Dr. Harsh Vardhan noted, \u201cPneumosil<\/em>\u00a0is an example of India’s capability in Research & Development & manufacturing high end sophisticated Vaccines. In fact, it is matter of pride for our country for this historical milestone during COVID-19 Pandemic because till now we are fully dependent on Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine manufactured by Foreign Manufacturers which are available at very high prices.\u201d He took the occasion to remind the audience that Pneumonia is the single largest infectious cause of death among children under five years of age worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 lakhs deaths globally.<\/p>\n

Congratulating the country\u2019s scientific and medical fraternity, the minister said, \u201cI am sure thatthe team of Serum Institute of India and others in the entire scientific and medical community will continue their endeavour to develop many more life-saving vaccines in future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Manohar Agnani, Additional Secretary (MoHFW) and other senior officials of the Ministry were present at the event.<\/p>\n

Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla, Chairman, Poonawalla Group of Industries and Founder, Serum Institute of India Private Limited (SIIPL), Shri Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer,SIIPL were also present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates Country\u2019s First Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine \u201cIndigenous Vaccine also a step towards Atmanirbhar Bharat, being Vocal For Local\u201d Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare today inaugurated India\u2019s first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). The vaccine \u201cPneumosil\u201d has been developed by the Serum Institute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16580,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16579\/revisions\/16580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}