Access to Affordable Essential Medicines in India Situational Analysis, Opportunities and Challenges

India is famously known as pharmacy of the world and undoubtedly is medicine superpower in the world. In these tough times of Covid-19 India has been emerged as "Vishwaguru" and "Dhanvantri" of the world. India believes in "sarve santu niramaya" philosophy. India has gained huge diplomatic credit using generic medicines as a diplomatic weapon in its foreign policy. India has proven its metal in the whole of universe. Institutions like UN, WHO and World leaders have expressed their...
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India is famously known as pharmacy of the world and undoubtedly is medicine superpower in the world. In these tough times of Covid-19 India has been emerged as "Vishwaguru" and "Dhanvantri" of the world. India believes in "sarve santu niramaya" philosophy. India has gained huge diplomatic credit using generic medicines as a diplomatic weapon in its foreign policy. India has proven its metal in the whole of universe. Institutions like UN, WHO and World leaders have expressed their gratitude toward India for helping selflessly with its supplying essential medicines, medical equipments and most importantly vaccines to all over the world to fight this pandemic. India share in producing medicines is 20% and 61% in vaccines. It is impossible to imagine smooth functioning of organisations like WHO, MSF (Medicine sans frontiers) etc. without Indian generic medicines and vaccines. It's a hard truth that UN's millennium goal of UHC (Universal Health Coverage) can't be achieved without India. Ongoing war against pandemic Covid-19 cannot be won without India.