Panacea expects WHO pre-qualification for vaccine in Q2

Fri, Jun 27 02:17 PM

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Vaccine and drug maker Panacea Biotec Ltd expects to get World Health Organisation's pre-qualification for its pentavalent combination vaccine in July-Sept quarter, its joint managing director said.

Pre-qualification acts as a guide to help countries and United Nations agencies select suppliers for the drugs.

"With only two players and both not able to meet the market demand, I think there is a huge opportunity lying in front of us," Rajesh Jain told Reuters over telephone.

"It is a market of close to 120 million doses per year and market size of $350-400 million."

Panacea's Easyfive is a combination of vaccines for immunising children against Hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus etc.

The firm was pre-qualified by WHO in January to supply two other combination vaccines for paediatric immunisation.

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