## no aadhaar for vaccination, essential medical services! ### Joint Statement: Ensure equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccines, and health care resources
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on India, as the second wave of the pandemic continues to ravage India's health infrastructure. In such desperate times, ensuring equitable, fast and easy access to healthcare, medicines and the vaccines is fundamental. *Rethink Aadhaar* joins the *Forum For Medical Ethics Society, Internet Freedom Foundation, and Swathanthra Malayalam Computing* in this joint representation. statement. We urge all government and administrative authorities to ensure that: 1) The vaccination drive is inclusive, equitable, and accessible, 2) The manacles of Aadhaar are not imposed as a condition for accessing critical healthcare services, 3) The vaccination programme is not used as a laboratory to test new technologies, and 4) Health data is not exploited under the pretenses of the pandemic. **For the government to listen to this, we need your support. Please sign the statement by filling up this form and share it with your friends and family to help the citizens of India gain better and equitable access to healthcare services! You can read the entire statement **[**here**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OxJ33C2TFk3dXvbt0i9dL6u3KHrzJM2Y/view?usp=sharing)**. ** Please sign the following public statement by the Internet Freedom Foundation, Rethink Aadhaar, the Forum for Medical Ethics Society and Swathantra Malayalam Computing to say no to Aadhaar! [ click here to sign! ](https://blocksurvey.io/survey/1PfQfn62JSDjjyK4nuHoY5t21wKeuocLLm/65a96a84-2641-471d-af26-7c368383aae7) ## Add your voice to the "Opt-out from Aadhaar" Campaign**Petition to be delivered to GoI (PMO), UIDAI & Supreme Court:** I demand that the Government of India stop asking citizens to link one identity card - Aadhaar - to multiple services. The multiple problems surrounding the Aadhaar have convinced me that such linking serves no purpose except to create a surveillance state. Since Aadhaar was introduced in September 2010, citizens have been cut off from essential services such as food rations, students have had problems in receiving their scholarships, people have been turned away from medical treatment for not carrying Aadhaar cards, pensioners have stopped getting their pensions due to Aadhaar-related errors, and there are growing concerns around big data collection and identity theft. **I do not want one identity number and card, and do not want one identity card linked to multiple citizen services, and therefore I wish to opt out of Aadhaar entirely.** I want the Government to answer one question: Which new service does it need us to make an Aadhaar for that doesn't already require another identity document? We already have ration card to get rations, school certificates to show completion of schooling, driving license for motor vehicles, passport as a national ID when going abroad, PAN to pay taxes, and an electoral card for voting. Therefore, please tell us which new service do you need our Aadhaar for? **Since there is no new such service, and because I do not want one ID card linked to multiple services, I wish to opt out of Aadhaar entirely.**
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