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prabirkc · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:13 am

Currently Abhay Clinics are providing vaccine refrigerators to private practitioners in their network. Government agencies use the old Bluestar or VestFrost ILRs at the block and district levels and Walk In Coolers above this. Voltas does not seem to make ILRs. The new Haier ILRs appear to be of a different specification.
So what do other private agencies do? Big private hospitals with lots of deliveries or private pediatricians or NGOs with rural beneficiaries? Should we have some provision for providers giving over one hundred immunizations a week or should they find time to approach the government stores every day? They can afford to buy an ILR--but it is not available in the market. This is a large part of the immunization sector.

Prabir

drkssagar · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:55 am

This is a critical issue, GoI recently drafted and circulated guidelines on involvement of Private Players (both practitioners and NGO) in immunization. These were sent to the states. The guidelines can be obtained from the state government or GoI and these institutes can request the district/state for the required logistics including the ILR/DF.

maired · **Posted:** Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:24 am

Dear all,

Although WHO PQS does prequalify equipment for UN purchase, its perspective is to examine and propose equipments that are suitable for immunization could it be for UN purchase, member states, or the private sector. The specifications for these equipments are published in our website at:

http://www.who.int/immunization_standards/vaccine_quality/pqs/en/index.html

On the manufacturer's side, we do have to recognize that the market for those equipments is limited in comparison to the market on equipments for domestic purposes. However, few manufacturers are very dedicated in proposing equipments that we do consider appropriate for immunization programmes. Although only few PQS prequalified equipments (including ILRs from HAIER) can be found in our website due to some delays in the prequalification process, many more are in the pipeline and should be published in the near future. For further information, the PQS secretariat can be contacted at pqsinfo@who.int

It is to be noted that manufacturers do not produce specifically for the UN or Ministries of Health, but that these products are on the market for any one who wants to purchase them, including the private sector. So in that sense I am not sure to understand the remark made here. Is it a problem of international procurement specific to India and limiting availability of products on local market?

Kind regards,

malarianag · **Posted:** Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:50 am

This is a fantastic link giving all details. Congratulations.

Nagaraj

prabirkc · **Posted:** Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:06 pm

Many thanks for the link.
We are wondering about individual purchasers- who would buy one or at most two ILRs on the local market. There are thousands of pediatricians and small and big hospitals who keep vaccines in domestic refrigerators- which is not really advisable
I believe there have been some complaints about the brand mentioned in India.
Since I last wrote some sources tell me that other brands appear to cost around 2000 US dollars in India (both international made and Indian made). This is in contrast to 600 US dollars for Deep Freezers.
Prabir

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