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The director-president of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa), Antonio Barra Torres placeholder imagesaid Friday that the certification process of vaccinations the body is governed by exclusively technical criteria. According to him, the recent suspension of vaccine tests CoronaVac It was decided by the internal committee made up of 18 agency specialists, without going through the board of directors.
“About the intervention [política] in the agency there are two words: there are none, “said the president of Anvisa, during a hearing of the Covid-19 Joint Committee of the National Congress that discusses carrying out clinical studies related to the vaccine.
Barra said that there was no interference on his part or the then director Alessandra Bastos Soares, recalling that, in the agency, “there are no subordinates, but an organization chart.” He even cited what subordinate relationship exists in the Navy, for example, where he built a career.
Regarding the inspection activities to be carried out by Anvisa technicians in China, the president of the agency reported that the works will not begin next week, since the specialists must comply with 14 days of quarantine in Chinese territory.
Barra said that, after the vaccines are released, Anvisa begins to monitor any “anomalies” and “sequelae.” “Anvisa’s work will not stop when it grants the registration. This is a medium and long-term job, there will be follow-up ”, he said.
According to him, the verification of “unlikely and extremely rare effects” is part of the work routine of any agency. “Nowhere in the world does a regulatory agency settle the bill by granting the registration,” he said.
Barra also said he regrets that the confidentiality of the patient who participated in the CoronaVac vaccine trials, who subsequently died, was “neglected” and “disrespected.”
“I regret that confidentiality in recent days has been neglected and devalued, thus exposing this family and this volunteer tester. It is a practice with which we from the agency cannot agree,” he said.
