COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution: Chemist body AIOCD asks Govt to utilize their supply chain
New Delhi: Amid the country passing through challenging situations of COVID-19 Pandemic, the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) has recently written to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, assuring about cold chain availability for COVID-19 vaccine and urging him to utilize the established supply chain for vaccine distribution through its members comprising 8.50 lakh chemists across the country.
Rajiv Singhal, General Secretary, AIOCD said that all chemists are ready to deliver the COVID-19 vaccine with full cold chain management.
"We (AIOCD) have instructed all chemists to be ready and prepared for the COVID-19 vaccine in times to come," Singhal said.
He further informed that they have already conducted many seminars for the cold chain in the last three years, now the time has come to serve humanity. Therefore, AIOCD has requested the PM to advise concerned Ministries and Departments to issue guidelines for use of their channel members to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.
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