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Nepal to procure 2 mn vaccines from India at subsidised rate
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IANS | 16 Feb, 2021
The Nepal government on Tuesday decided to procure two million doses of
Covid-19 vaccine from the Serum Institute of India at a subsidised rate.
A
cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening paved the way to procure two million
Covishied vaccines at $4 per dose, Nepal's Health Minister Hrydesh
Tripathi said.
Earlier in January, Nepal had received one million
doses of Covid vaccine from India on a grant, and nationwide
immunisation is underway in the country for frontline workers and
others.
After India gave one million vaccines to Nepal, China
also announced that it will grant half a million Covid vaccines to
Nepal, but the government of Nepal is yet to give emergency
authorisation for the use of Chinese vaccine.
In order to ease
the vaccine procurement process and secure the doses as early as
possible, the government has decided to pay in advance in the purchase
of the Covishield vaccine from India, said Tripathi.
Although an
agreement was reached with the Serum Institute of India to purchase one
dose of the vaccine for $4, the procurement process had not proceeded
for the payment. Nepal's Public Procurement Law does not permit to
procure any items by paying full down-payment.
"After the Serum
Institute of India did not agree to send shipments of Covid vaccine
without full payment in advance, the procurement process was not moving
ahead. We removed the bottlenecks to procure the vaccine," said
Tripathi, adding that now it is sure that Nepal will get the vaccines at
a discounted rate.
The government of India played a special role to procure vaccines at a subsidiary rate, Tripathi added.
As of Tuesday, Nepal has reported a total 2,72,945 Covid cases and 2,055 deaths.
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