By Express News Service
KOCHI: The Kerala Medical Services Corporation Ltd (KMSCL), the state’s procurement company, on Friday knowledgeable the High Court that the worldwide tender floated to acquire Covid vaccines straight from worldwide market did not evoke any response. This is identical place as with different states within the nation, it added.
When the case associated to Covid vaccination points got here up for listening to, M Ajay, counsel for the company, submitted that although the company had made a honest effort to acquire vaccine by world tender, no bidders approached the state.
The authorities has accorded sanction to KMSCL to undertake world tender for the acquisition of three crore doses of vaccines from the producers permitted by the Drugs Control General of India. However, there was no response from vaccine producers. Now the company has to rely upon the Centre to get vaccines provided by world producers for the state, it mentioned.
