Letter from DG meant to ‘cut red tape’, clarifies ICMR
Sushmi.Dey@timesgroup.com
New Delhi: 05.07.2020
A day after it drew flak for setting what was seen as an impossible deadline for developing a vaccine for Covid and saying noncompliance of participating institutes will be taken seriously, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday said the letter was meant to “cut unnecessary red tape” and speed up recruitment of participants for trials without bypassing necessary process.
The clarification from the government’s apex medical research body comes in the wake of concerns in the medical and scientific community for ICMR setting August 15 as a target for developing a coronavirus vaccine and asking clinical trial investigators to enroll participants by July 7. The letter was written by ICMR director general Dr Balram Bhargava.
While timelines were strongly questioned by the scientific community, ICMR said the effort was to speed up recruitment for human trials and “process is exactly in accordance with the globally accepted norms to fast-track the vaccine development for diseases of pandemic potential wherein human and animal trials can continue in parallel”.
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