WHO Top Scientist: India To Become World's Biggest Pharmacy

World Health Organization Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan has praised India for becoming the pharmacy of the world in the last 75 years. She enumerated India's four major successes that are eradication of polio, a few other vaccine-preventable diseases, the reduction of maternal and child mortality, and universal health coverage. However, she said, "The Covid-19 pandemic has also increased the poverty rate...so...we'll need to...take preemptive action on."