20 million doses of ShanIPV given to GoI

October 24, 2017 11:57 pm | Updated 11:59 pm IST - HYDERABAD

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has announced that its affiliate Shantha Biotechnics has supplied 20 million doses of ShanIPV to the Central Government since December 2015.

The company claimed that ShanIPV was the only inactivated polio vaccine to be locally manufactured and provided to the Central Government. Health Minister C. Laxma Reddy flagged off the final shipment of the vaccine from Shantha Biotechnics’ manufacturing site at Medchal.

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