India has allowed private hospitals to collect vaccines, but must reverse the policy after a month because of controversy.

India launches a vaccination campaign by free injections for all doctors and headlines from January. The vaccination in the early stages only takes place at health facilities run by the Government.

In the second phase, starting on March 1, the government began injection for people over 60 years of age and over 45 years of age with background pathology.

The Indian government then announced to expand the immunization object to all adults from May 1, but there was a remarkable thing that not all the injections were free.

Under the new policy, India distributes vaccines through three channels including federal, state and private hospitals.

Health workers, head and people over 45 years of age are in charge of free vaccination in government vaccination centers.

One vaccination point in New Delhi, India in February. Photo: Reuters.

Vaccine production companies are allowed to decide on the selling price for state governments and private hospitals.

The federal and state authorities must pay different prices to buy vaccines that are unreasonable, Chandrakant Lahariya, medical policy experts, said.

Experts said that in the early days of the vaccination expansion, most vaccines were only deployed in private hospitals in many cities.

Apollo Hospital has charged 850 rupees (nearly 11.5 USD) for each vaccine dose at 5 of their vaccination centers across the city.

On May 7, only a public health center in Bangalore City began providing Covid-19 vaccines for 18 years of age or older.

Many experts criticize new policies, arguing that only a small part of the country's population is afford to pay too high vaccination fees of private hospitals.

Indranil, medical economist and associate professor at the Global University OP Jindal, said the budget of 350 billion rupees (more than 4.7 billion USD) that the government dedicated to the vaccination campaign is more than enough to cover all

Many people originally welcomed the Vaccine charging policy in the hope of encouraging manufacturers to increase vaccines between India deficiencies.

It not only benefits individuals but also benefits society, so it is necessary to minimize all barriers to vaccinations, Ketchell writes.

More than a month after implementing the vaccination fee policy, Prime Minister Modi on 7/6 announces reversing this decision.

From today, all people aged 18 and over are free to get vaccinated by the Indian government campaign and the vaccination speed will increase, the Minister of Interior Amit Shah said during the visit to Gujarat on 21

India, nation nearly 1.4 billion people, set a vaccination target for all mature populations before the end of this year.

This country's vaccination campaign is mainly based on two domestic vaccines including Covishield, a version of Astrazeneca, and Covaxin grows by Bharat Biotech.

Vaccine will be provided free of charge in the Government's vaccination campaign, whether it is the poor, the middle class or the upper class, Prime Minister Modi said earlier in June.

Modi adds that people who do not want to get free vaccines at government facilities can choose to choose from private hospitals.

New policy will help distribute fair vaccines across the country, bring benefits to a large part of people, Rajinder K. Dhamija, Neuropathist at Lady Hardinge University and former WHO member at the Institute of Translation