Bt190m sought for vaccine factory
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The National Vaccine Institute will seek a Bt190million budget for building a vaccine factory, the institute's director Dr Jarung Muangchana said Monday.
Jarung explained that the institute had been upgraded to a public organisation last month so it was not able to seek the 2013 budget in time. The institute will seek an initial operating budget of Bt190 million from the government’s central fund, he said, adding that the institute was planning to build an additional factory to produce vaccines for all clinical trial projects.
Currently, the institute has a pilot vaccine plant at the King Mongkut’s University of Technology Bang Khunthien and wants to build another plant at the Medical Science Department of the Public Health Ministry.
The Nation
