New Delhi : The Union Health Ministry said that media reports asserting that officials from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have acknowledged various side effects from COVID-19 vaccines are false and inaccurate. The government’s two top watchdogs have admitted to ‘multiple side-effects’ of COVID-19 vaccines that inoculated over a billion Indians in the past more than two years. The startling revelations — many of which were previously known — were reiterated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) in an RTI reply to Pune businessman Prafful Sarda.
In a specific query by Sarda on the side-effects of all these jabs, the ICMR’S PIO Dr. Leyanna Susan George and CDSCO’s PIO, Sushanta Sarkar, have cited a plethora of ramifications arising out of all these vaccines comprising their FAQs. The RTI reply has stated that though all the vaccines had side-effects, Covishield takes the lion’s share of its after-effects on the jabbed population.Sarda has since blamed the government for creating a compulsion to take side-effect-riddled vaccines. He has also urged them to release data on whether adequate publicity on all these possible side-effects was done through media, by hospitals, vaccination centres, and if the health ministry initiated any public safety campaigns for the gullible masses, now that vaccine-related deaths are being reported in India and worldwide.
Sarda cited how India had donated crores of free vaccines — leading to an uproar in 2021 — to many poor countries worldwide and questioned whether all the potential complications of the jabs were brought to the notice of the people in those nations.