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Chennai: With the Covid-19 vaccination rates dropping drastically, the needles and syringes major Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd (HMD) is repurposing its machines to make other classes of syringes, said a top company official. Incidentally, one out of 7/8 persons were administered the Covid-19 vaccine world wise with HMD made syringes. The company had supplied 1.75 billion syringes of the total 13.3 billion Covid-19 vaccines administered globally. "We are repurposing our machines to produce Smart Kojak needlestick prevention syringes for curative healthcare drug delivery and are looking to penetrate overseas markets which have higher standards for injection safety than India currently for both patients as well as healthcare workers," said Rajiv Nath, Managing Director. According to him, the volume syringe production came down drastically a the Covid-19 vaccination rate dipped to negligible levels in the last quarter. "Production of AD (auto disable) immunization syringes at our plant has fallen from 45-50 lacs units per day a year ago to 5-6 lakhs now," Nath remarked. Meanwhile, in April 2023, HMD achieved the milestone of supplying 1.75 billion syringes of the total 13.3 billion Covid-19 vaccines administered globally, that is, over 13% of covid shots administered worldwide was using Kojak Selinge AD Syringes of HMD. Nearly 1 covid vaccine in every 7-8 people worldwide was administered using HMD's syringe, the company said. "Total Government orders HMD received till date from Dec 2020 are of more than 900 million pcs of 0.5 ml Kojak Selinge AD Syringes. In addition, HMD has been supplying various sizes of Dispo Van and Kojak Selinge AD Syringes in the private sector vaccination campaign. All orders received till date f ...