(a) whether the polio drops vaccine for polio immunisation programme are being supplied to hospitals
after proper testing by the Government;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) whether any case of supply of inferior quality of this vaccine has been detected in the recent past;and
(d) if so, the details thereof and the action taken in this regard?
MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINITRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE (SHRI DINESH TRIVEDI)
(a) & (b) After an in-house testing of all batches of polio vaccines by the manufacturers, vaccine samples
from the batches are sent for a pre-release quality check to the National Regulatory Authority Laboratory
located at the Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL), Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh. The vaccines are supplied to
States/Union Territories (UTs) for further distribution to hospitals only after they are cleared at the
quality check.
(c) No.
(d) Question does not arise in view of the reply to part (c) above.