NIH is still producing sheep brain rabies vaccine. In the past three years over 150,000 courses of 14 doses each were manufactured and distributed. The present government's decision to have all the pending Audit Reports evaluated by experts have made it possible for this report to surface again.
Time is now ripe for final show down in cases of corruption in vaccine purchase and related matters.
Though the white collar crime may be hard to prove, yet the new strategy of the NAB to have the unexplained accumulation of assets of the concerned people cross checked with the time of megadeals has sent many people to jail, this has given scapegoats a chance to have their names cleared and get on with the real work. The HDC Rabies Vaccine Project of NIH was once the flag ship of Biological Production in Pakistan. Human Diploid Cell Rabies Vaccine was manufactured here from the basic raw materials, besides its consumption within Pakistan it was also exported through WHO to other Islamic countries. In 1998 it was converted into a production setup to manufacture the obsolete Sheep Brain Rabies Vaccine. In 1999 there was a proposal to have this converted into Vero Cell Vaccine Processing Lab.