India sets example with massive Corona virus vaccination program

 India sets example with massive Corona virus vaccination program..

India has begun a massive vaccination program aimed at immunizing 300 million people from COVID-19 by August

The world’s second most populous nation after China India is calling upon a million doctors and millions of planners and medical staff to target children and adults most in need of protection...

But India no longer needs help from the elephants that hauled vaccines to remote villages in the 1980s when India began to fight polio measles and other childhood illnesses....

“We now have plenty of roads, even to remote areas” said a government official at the Indian Embassy in Washington “We don’t need the elephants for that any more. Trucks have already begun moving to 13 cities”//

Nor does India need donations from foreign aid agencies to deliver more than 400 million doses of vaccine. India boasts the world’s largest vaccine producer Serum Institute and the country often provides vaccines and other medicine to developing countries in Asia and Africa as well as to some developed countries....

In an example of vaccine diplomacy, India will donate 150000 doses to Bhutan 100001 doses to the Maldives and send more to Bangladesh Myanmar and the Seychelles India’s Foreign Ministry said last week...

Indias COVID-19 vaccination program is a huge undertaking.

In trips I made across India in the 1970s I often saw handicapped children on spindly legs victims of polio which struck 2000 children a year

Starting in 1985mammoth well-organized efforts to eliminate polio got underway in India. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared India officially polio-free in 2014 after some 2.3 million medical staff and 155000 supervisors treated 172 million children....

For decades, millions of Indian health workers, doctors and scientists fighting polio, hepatitis B, measles and now the coronavirus have been working, sometimes using elephants, to reach remote villages and provide vaccine injections to its 1.3 billion people.

India’s healthcare delivery program is instructive to American and European virus-fighters struggling to organize swiftly and broadly enough to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic....

India’s sprawling health program uses a series of more than 25000 “cold chain” sites where medicine can be kept cool in a tropical country for both storage and transport And India is reportedly producing one billion syringes that cannot be reused by drug addicts...

India takes the campaign to inoculate 300 million people very seriously with newspapers and public reminders that 10 years ago the country experienced its last case of wild polio virus....