Audio podcast: Failure after failure on the vaccine front

Ashraf Engineer

June 2, 2o21

The world’s largest vaccine manufacturer is facing a deadly shortage of COVID-19 doses. From planning to procurement and pricing, everything went wrong. Murali Neelakantan, a former global general counsel for pharma heavyweights who has worked extensively on issues related to the intersection of healthcare and law, dissects the crisis – from IPR to procurement and the new tenders for vaccines to production and pricing – for All Indians Matter.