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The Senate approved on Thursday the 3rd a bill that establishes the free availability of vaccine against Covid-19 for the entire population. The text determines that immunization is a right of all and a duty of the Union, the States, the Federal District and the municipalities. The matter is now being analyzed by the Chamber of Deputies.
The project establishes that “the most vulnerable groups” should have priority in vaccination. As the Status, Revealed the news system in real time of the Grupo Estado, people over 75 years and over, health professionals and indigenous people will be the first to be vaccinated against covid-19 in the country, according to a schedule presented on Tuesday 1 by the Ministry. of Health in a meeting with a committee of experts and obtained by Estadão.
As shown by the Political transmission, the text approved on Thursday is a “lighter” version of the bill presented by Senator Alessandro Vieira (Cidadania-SE), which established specific technical criteria for the delivery of doses and transfer of resources to states and municipalities.
According to the original wording, transfers should consider the size of the population, the percentage of the population immune to the disease and the proportion of vulnerable groups in relation to the total population. The rapporteur of the proposal, Nelsinho Trad (PSD-MS), however, eliminated the detailed criteria and left the definition of rules for the elaboration of a regulation.
The rules, according to the PL, must be based on “demographic, epidemiological and health information and data”. The government must make the chosen criteria transparent and listen to the commission made up of the state and municipal secretaries and the National Health Council. Information on dose and resource distribution should also be public and available online.
However, there is no deadline for the government to present the regulation with the immunization criteria. The original text provided that the document should be prepared in 30 days, but the rapporteur considered it “unconstitutional” to set a date.
The bill also establishes that the Unified Health System (SUS) will have priority in the acquisition and distribution of vaccines against covid-19, until the national vaccination coverage goals are reached.
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