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Health Ministry Does Not Know Where COVID Vaccine Expert Group’s Records Are

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By Biotech Express on 09/12/2020 Biotech News, Controversial, SARS- CoV2 & COVID-19 Updates

The Union health ministry has said in response to an RTI application that it does not know where records related to agenda circulated in meetings of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) are held.

Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative had approached the ministry seeking details of the constitution and working of the expert group such as dates of meetings, a copy of the detailed agenda circulated in relation to every meeting, presentations made before its members, and material it had shared with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Nayak had also sought to know the amount of sitting fees and every other remuneration or allowances payable to the chairperson and every member of the expert group and the amount of sitting fees and every other remuneration or allowances actually paid to them.

Nayak filed an appeal before a senior official in the ministry challenging the order of the CPIO. The official ruled that the CPIO does not have information and does not know where the information can be. The application was also transferred to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the MEA. The ICMR said it does not have information sought by Nayak. On the NEGVAC material shared with it, the MEA cited exemption clause of national security and related issues to deny the records. Nayak said both the CPIO and the first appellate authority not knowing about the physical location of NEGVAC’s papers despite the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) servicing this body is “truly perplexing”.

“How can people’s meaningful participation be ensured if the MoHFW does not place in the public domain details of NEGVAC’s working. There is a statutory requirement of proactive information disclosure under Sections 4(1)(c) and 4(1)(d) of the RTI Act about NEGVAC’s working. MoHFW and other public authorities involved in the vaccination roll-out plan have a statutory duty to make all facts and figures public along with the underlying reasoning for their decisions and actions under these provisions,” Nayak said.

He said he would approach the Central Information Commission to challenge “the actions and omissions of MoHFW and MEA”.

 

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