Author: Bipin Kumar
Position: Dr
Institution: Ranchi
E-mail: drbipinkumar@gmail.com
Submitted Date: September 18, 2007
Published Date: September 19, 2007
This comment was originally posted as a “Reader Response” on the publication date indicated above. All Reader Responses are now available as comments.

I am new to the world of journal article reading and readers. You people must be raising your eyebrows upon me, but it true. The institute that I graduated from did not subscribe to any medical journal; all the "journals" that the institute currently gets is the specimen copies sent by the publishers. I know that it is not the right forum to tell these thing but I wanted just to begin with all this.

What has the author described in this article is very true and making someone to pause and ponder. I had an opportunity to work in the Polio Eradication program in India. It gave me a good experience. But the bad thing is that India being a good supplier of the vaccines is an importer of the OPV. Although UNICEF procures them, but it is really embarrassing. People look to India for cheaper vaccines and drugs; India is one of the biggest OPV consumer of the world in today's epoch, but the pity is that we are dependent on others.

I do not know why the production of indigenous vaccines has been stopped. Anyway, it should be restarted and the government should try to make our country self reliant.