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Flu alert - Tuesday, 12 January (07:46 hrs.)
Spain Returns 24 Million Flu Shots
Aims to save 170 mde
The doses were ordered last year
El Financiero en l?nea
Brussels, January 12 .- Spain returned to the laboratory about 24 million doses of vaccine against human influenza A/H1N1 who ordered last year, revealed today the Minister of Health, Trinidad Jimenez. The minister said this will enable the country to save 170 million euros (245 million).
"Of the 37 million doses that we had booked, only 13 million have served us," said Jimenez, who said the difference is due to change in the orientation of the World Health Organization (WHO).
At first, the agency said we would need two doses of vaccine for each patient so that the treatment was effective, but after further studies of human influenza, he changed the recommendation for just one dose per person.
For that reason, several European countries now accumulate large surpluses of vaccine and face criticism for the way they managed the situation.
In France only been used five million of the 94 million doses were purchased and the country is now trying to resell their surplus.
Meanwhile, Belgium has announced it will donate to the poorest 10 percent of the total 11 million 340 thousand doses available.
For its part, Spain is benefiting from a clause in his contract with pharmaceutical companies which provides for the repayment of the remaining vaccine.
According to Jimenez, nine million vaccines used in Spain have been targeted at risk groups and the remaining four million were in the reserve of the state "to deal with any eventuality".
"We want to maintain that reserve, given that it is likely that the virus is circulating next year for influenza A and, therefore, can serve even the same drug," he said.
The minister denied that the Spanish government's response to the epidemic and the WHO recommendations has been exaggerated and said he would "return to take the same decisions."
"There was a huge concern, because we did not know how to behave (the virus) and, therefore, our obligation was to take appropriate measures," he argued. (Con informaci?n de Notimex / CFE)
Flu alert - Tuesday, 12 January (07:46 hrs.)
Spain Returns 24 Million Flu Shots
Aims to save 170 mde
The doses were ordered last year
El Financiero en l?nea
Brussels, January 12 .- Spain returned to the laboratory about 24 million doses of vaccine against human influenza A/H1N1 who ordered last year, revealed today the Minister of Health, Trinidad Jimenez. The minister said this will enable the country to save 170 million euros (245 million).
"Of the 37 million doses that we had booked, only 13 million have served us," said Jimenez, who said the difference is due to change in the orientation of the World Health Organization (WHO).
At first, the agency said we would need two doses of vaccine for each patient so that the treatment was effective, but after further studies of human influenza, he changed the recommendation for just one dose per person.
For that reason, several European countries now accumulate large surpluses of vaccine and face criticism for the way they managed the situation.
In France only been used five million of the 94 million doses were purchased and the country is now trying to resell their surplus.
Meanwhile, Belgium has announced it will donate to the poorest 10 percent of the total 11 million 340 thousand doses available.
For its part, Spain is benefiting from a clause in his contract with pharmaceutical companies which provides for the repayment of the remaining vaccine.
According to Jimenez, nine million vaccines used in Spain have been targeted at risk groups and the remaining four million were in the reserve of the state "to deal with any eventuality".
"We want to maintain that reserve, given that it is likely that the virus is circulating next year for influenza A and, therefore, can serve even the same drug," he said.
The minister denied that the Spanish government's response to the epidemic and the WHO recommendations has been exaggerated and said he would "return to take the same decisions."
"There was a huge concern, because we did not know how to behave (the virus) and, therefore, our obligation was to take appropriate measures," he argued. (Con informaci?n de Notimex / CFE)