Chidambaram for CAG-driven audit on vaccines

“The mystery of the ‘missing vaccines’ is deepening every day”, he says

Former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday demanded a Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG)-driven audit of vaccine production and supply in the country to unravel the ‘mystery of missing vaccines’ before public anger hits the streets. In a separate Facebook post, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that the oxygen shortage that the country had seen last month and earlier this month is the result of Narendra Modi government’s “lack of planning, incompetence and a 700 % increase in the export of oxygen in 2020”. In tweets, Mr. Chidambaram said, “The mystery of the “missing vaccines” is deepening every day. The statement of Bharat Biotech about the ‘lead time’ required to produce a batch of vaccines has added to the confusion. We understand that ‘capacity’ is one thing and ‘production’ is a different thing. What we would like to know is the actual quantity produced so far by the two domestic manufacturers. Once we know the actual production so far, we should be told what has been supplied date-wise and to whom?”