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This time to certify the failure from Lombardy region on flu vaccines is the Lombardy Region itself. “Currently, all Production line distributive of the flu vaccine for Ats Milan presents very low availability of vaccines over 65 years, and has no other availability of other influenza or pneumococcal vaccines “, it actually reads mail sent this afternoon by the Ats of Milan (the old Asl) to some doctors awaiting doses for patients. “It has not been announced at the time that there will be more supplies of the vaccine.” The email, released by the regional councilor of the Democratic Party Carmela rozza, makes in a single blow all the guarantees given so far by the Councilor for Welfare Giulio Gallera.
The doses have arrived late and not long enough to cover the target population of people fragile that the Ministry of Health has recommended to vaccinate this year from the beginning of October. A vaccination campaign that concomitance with Covid-19, so as not to confuse in the diagnosis phase i symptoms similar with the flu and not overload Health institutions. But family doctors, as you have already written ilfattoquotidiano.it, at the end of October they received only one hundred doses each spread over three weeks, before a number of patients to be vaccinated that can reach 500-600. It is also difficult to find the vaccine in vaccination centers, where reservation agendas have only been open since November. These days, doctors should have gotten the extra doses. But in Milan who received the boxes with vaccines, inside I found much less how many he ordered. And then he turned to Ats, who replied via e-mail that availability is “very low” and that nothing is known about when other vaccines will arrive.
The situation is the result of the continuous problems committed by the department directed by Gallera and Aria, the region’s shopping center, which after a succession of errors in ads, so far ten, has managed to order about 2.9 million doses, enough to cover 75% of the target population, considered by the ministry as a minimum goal reach. But you have to subtract 620 thousand doses from the 2.9 million doses have not received AIFA authorization (Italian Medicines Agency), while it was immediately clear that the delivery times granted to some suppliers would reach the end of November, if not beyond. The last case, that of a tender for 150 thousand vaccines transferred in just 24 hours, except for the verifications to be carried out in the requirements, to a dental office in Bolzano result then without registration in the registry of the Ministry of Pharmaceutical Intermediaries.
Today’s post from Ats marks another step in the failure of the Lombardy region. “The sham has become tragedy – says Carmela Rozza -. Citizens no longer know which saint to vote for to get vaccinated, the doctors we have asked to equip themselves for vaccines do not have the doses to administer for the most fragile and exposed categories and they must spend time communicating this to their patients. Fontana and Gallera are leaving hundreds of thousands of Old people even without vaccine, do it once and for all clarity and say who can get vaccinated and how and when they can do it. “
Here is the response from the Milan Ats, which states that Rozza’s statements “are not true”: “In recent days, more than 235,000 vaccines distributed to ETA general practitioners, (on average 120-130 additional doses for each doctor) that will go to their patients over 65 for the flu vaccination campaign. “For Ats, the email sent to the doctors“ was sent after the distribution of these doses began: it is an indication to use delivered or delivered vaccines without making more requests supply, as the distribution network is currently no longer available, which is expected in the coming weeks. Doctors, who to date have vaccinated more than 125,000 citizens, can thus continue campaigning activities for patients over 65 years of age ”.
But the very numbers cited in Ats’s answer, and in particular the “120-130 additional doses,” are by no means absolute. From in a circular of October 10 signed by the general director of Wellbeing Trivelli, which was already proof of the delays in the supply of vaccines, it was written in black and white that family doctors could have reserved “the additional doses for those over 65 at the pharmacy from mid-November.” And so all necessary, not just 120-130 per person.
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