Ujjain: Most of the worldís population today is plagued by the fear of corona infection. Due to the patents of big companies on medicines and vaccines for the treatment and prevention of this infection, they are not accessible to everyone. Humanís right to life is a universal and fundamental right. By giving unlimited rights to some companies to make profits from patents, the right to life of crores of people is under threat and this cannot be allowed to happen.
For the protection of humanity, Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) is running a campaign to make available patents on Covid-19 vaccine and medicines to the whole world easily and easily.
Also, a proposal to exempt the universal vaccine and medicines campaign from the TRIPS agreement was also presented in the World Trade Organisation.
According to SJM Malwa province co-convener Dilip Singh Chauhan, more than 5 lakh people have from across the country in the Jan Jagran have given their assent to the online signature campaign which is underway since May 11. More than 15 thousand signatures have been received from Malwa province. Citizens including ex-Indian football team captain Baichung Bhutia, Malwa province acting head Shambhu Prasad Giri and minister of state for school education Inder Singh Parmar are participating in the campaign.
To make these vaccines and medicines cheap and accessible to all, an intensive campaign is being run by the people of India to make these vaccines and medicines patent free and transfer their technology. Although many drugs related to the treatment of Covid-19 are being produced locally, the amount available is insufficient to meet the growing demand due to the severity of the problem, Chauhan said.
SJM workers including province women chief Preeti Goyal, Ujjain district convener Harish Sharma, Kamlesh Khatri, Vidya Pathak, Nalini Sharma, Mangla Pandya, Lalit Soni, Deepak Kumawat, Ankit Sharma, Shailendra Parmar, Sandeep Parmar and Pushpendra Singh have appealed to make this campaign successful.
