'Foreign suppliers of JE vaccines have agreed to provide more'

Health Ministry has said that the foreign supplier has agreed to provide additional vaccines to control Japanese Encephalitis (JE) to India, amidst reports that it had refused to do so.
As per media reports, China had recently refused to supply additional doses of the vaccine to India.
"We are in continuous dialouge with them. They have agreed for the additional supplies. We would like to take more stock," Health Minister J P Nadda told reporters on the sidelines of an event.
He said that issue has been taken care of, saying, "We have got enough drugs. We are comfortable on that issue. But still much more is needed."

Reports said that India had sought additional doses to expand the coverage of its ongoing National Programme for Prevention and Control of Japanese Encephalitis.
Asked if additional doses will be taken on revised prices, Nadda said, "At this moment I would not be able to tell anything on that."

Nadda is presently visiting China to take part in the PPD 26th Executive Committee meeting in China.
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It was initiated during the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994 to expand and strengthen South-South collaboration between and among the developing countries in the field of reproductive health, population and development, its Facebook page said.