Tonka
Well-known member
http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=261772
04-02-2010 / 17:40 h
(PORTUGAL)-HEALTH SOCIETY, HEALTH
Portugal suspended the purchase of 2 million influenza vaccines
Official sources confirmed today that the Government had not negotiated the purchase of vaccines with multinational drug companies that had contracted to supply to immunize at the top with a double dose to 30 percent of the population.
According to local media, the negotiation has not led to financial penalties for this country, you will save about 15 million in vaccines.
Portugal in recent months received 1.6 million doses of the drug but has only been used half a million by the disaffection of the population, including the health profession, to get vaccinated.
The Health Ministry has reported that 104 people died so far because of the H1N1 virus in Portugal, in some cases without previous illness in others with ailments that vaccination advised not fulfilled by the victims. The health units specially formed to address the potential victims of the epidemic of Influenza A have begun to close this week in Lisbon, Oporto and other cities Lusas because, according to authorities, the low incidence of disease is not advisable to keep such a display of media health.
Influenza cases, variety not identified by the lack of clinical analysis in most cases, are declining in Portugal since November.
The latest data released by the Ministry of Health 2517 Luso collected cases in the last week of January in a country of ten million inhabitants. EFE
04-02-2010 / 17:40 h
(PORTUGAL)-HEALTH SOCIETY, HEALTH
Portugal suspended the purchase of 2 million influenza vaccines
Official sources confirmed today that the Government had not negotiated the purchase of vaccines with multinational drug companies that had contracted to supply to immunize at the top with a double dose to 30 percent of the population.
According to local media, the negotiation has not led to financial penalties for this country, you will save about 15 million in vaccines.
Portugal in recent months received 1.6 million doses of the drug but has only been used half a million by the disaffection of the population, including the health profession, to get vaccinated.
The Health Ministry has reported that 104 people died so far because of the H1N1 virus in Portugal, in some cases without previous illness in others with ailments that vaccination advised not fulfilled by the victims. The health units specially formed to address the potential victims of the epidemic of Influenza A have begun to close this week in Lisbon, Oporto and other cities Lusas because, according to authorities, the low incidence of disease is not advisable to keep such a display of media health.
Influenza cases, variety not identified by the lack of clinical analysis in most cases, are declining in Portugal since November.
The latest data released by the Ministry of Health 2517 Luso collected cases in the last week of January in a country of ten million inhabitants. EFE