India produces over 60% of the total vaccines sold globally.

Free Universal Immunisation Programme was launched way back in 1985.

As Covid vaccination rolls out, let applause this great Indian success story, that must be handled with great care to ensure continued credibility

The vaccine production started in British times. Immediately after independence, a vast network of vaccine research and manufacturers was developed that made the success story possible
Expanded Programme of Immunisation was launched in 1978.

People of my age remember the extensive free vaccination in schools and all still have marks of vaccination on our arms.

Small pox to Polio have been eradicated.

free universal immunisation was expanded in 2005
This success story of vaccine development, manufacture and immunisation could happen because India laid a huge network of Research Institutes. A glance:

International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology  (ICGEB),Delhi

National Institute of Immunology (NII), Delhi 5/n
New Delhi

National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune

National Aids Research Institute (NARI), Pune

National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED), Kolkata

Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), Chennai

Regional Medical Research Centre (BBSR), Bhuvaneshwar
6/n
Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow

Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH) Chandigarh

Centre for cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad

Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Kolkata 7/n
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi

Indian Institute of Sciences (IISC),  Banglore

Anna University, Chennai

Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS), Wardha

Indian Immunologicals Ltd. (IIL), Hyderabad
8/n
Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, (SGPGIMS), Lucknow

Delhi university(DU), South Campus

Pasteur Institute of India, (PII), Coonoor

Haffkine Institute (HI), Mumbai

Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital (TMC), Mumbai
9/n
King Institute of  Preventive Medicine, Chennai

Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli

Hyderabad University, Hyderabad

Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology (ICPO), Delhi
10/n
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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.