Add pharma staff in drive: Pharmexcil

Hyderabad: Pharmexcil director-general Ravi Uday Bhaskar on Wednesday wrote to the ministry of health and family welfare asking it to include employees of pharma industry in the fourth phase of the vaccination drive.

“Indian pharma sector supplied essential medicines to 150 nations during the initial period of the pandemic. Our exports have reached $2.5 billion during the April-Feb period with a 12.2% growth,” said Bhaskar of Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council of India.

“Industry associations informed that hundreds of employees of the pharma industry have tested positive during the second wave of Covid as the industry is working round the clock to meet the growing demand for supplies of essential medicines and vaccine,” Bhaskar said.