Influenza vaccines in Lombardy, the Chinese company that won the contest for 100,000 doses does not have the authorization of Aifa

L ‘Italian drug agency (Aifa) did not give in regulatory authorization to the batch of 100,000 vaccines against influenza provided by Chinese company Life in the as part of the last tender carried out in Lombardy for a total of 500 thousand vaccines. Therefore, the doses can not be used in our country: “The umpteenth serious event in an event in which the Lombardy Region gave worse than him“, Declares the head of delegation of P.S in the Health Committee of the Regional Council, Samuel Astuti. “Confirms that Aria (Regional company for innovation and purchases, ed.) It does not work and that in the Region the right hand does not know what the left is doing ”, he declares. Marco Fumagalli, leader of the M5 in the Regional Council.

“Will not be acquired, and therefore distributed, any vaccine that has not obtained the authorizations required by law and passed the consequent scrupulous controls, “he writes central purchases of the Lombardy Region. Regarding the 100,000 doses of Life On, “it stands out that Aria determined the allocation subordinate however, the legal effect after theit happened Aic (Marketing authorization) for Italy by Aifa, the Italian Medicines Agency. “” Until then, we still read, not there there will be no purchase nor any form of payment by the regional institution. All this does not affect the influenza vaccination campaign since the doses already acquired by the Lombardy Region over the months amount to 2.9 million units“.

Yesterday, friday, Milan prosecutor Opened a fact-finding investigation inbuying flu vaccines since Lombardy region at a price higher than the market price. In recent days it has arisen before a contest for 1.5 million doses was not awarded despite a double price compared to the first few calls and the promise of a cash advance 15 million euros. And then one last flash run, the 10th, allowed the Region to precisely find 500 thousand doses, of which 100 thousand to 11 euros each and 400 thousand for 26 euros each, at a price five times higher than the first sales. Today the news, anticipated by La7 and ofActed, that the 100,000 doses do not have the AIFA certificate.

“The absence of that amount would bring the Region very close to lower limit Coverage of more fragile categories and exposed, leaving all discoveries entire segments of the population that would instead be important that they get vaccinated against the flu, as recommended by the Ministry of Health and all the competent bodies in the fight against Sars-Cov-2 ″, underlines councilor Pd Astuti. While his colleague M5s Fumagalli points out that “the coordination should be from Ats Lombardia that in the respective competitions of Aria and Fundación Biomédica tries to plan the activity in the best possible way. I hope that the Lombardy region can soon be equipped with a organization to match of the situation “.

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