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One after another, the site dedicated to doctors, “A paper box
“If it is transferred to a paper box from the beginning, it is subject to disposal”
On the morning of the 22nd, a nurse is posting an advisory to suspend free flu at a pediatric hospital in Songpa-gu, Seoul. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discovered a problem in the distribution process of an influenza vaccine procurement contractor on the afternoon of the 21st. It was revealed that there were no reports of adverse reactions among the cases. News 1
The influenza (flu) vaccine, which the government wanted to inoculate for free, was exposed to room temperature during the transportation process, and vaccination was withheld entirely. All vaccines must be stored in a refrigerated condition of 2 to 8 degrees before being transported to a hospital, but have been exposed to room temperature. The worst case cannot be ruled out of disposing of the total amount of Shinsung Pharmaceutical, which is responsible for supplying this vaccine, has already reached 5 million doses (one dose is the amount of one dose).
On the 22nd, Medigate, a members-only online site dedicated to physicians, reports that all flu vaccines for youth ages 13-18 supplied to the hospital by Shinsung Pharmaceutical were delivered in paper boxes. One doctor said: “(The Shinsung Pharmaceutical side) just brought the vaccine in a paper box and took it to the hospital,” he wrote, saying, “I didn’t put it in a styrofoam ice box.” In the comment, another doctor wrote: “It is not an ice box or an ice pack, and I just got it in a paper box.” In the article titled “You came in a free (paper) box for the flu,” the clerk said, “I asked you, is it true. Huh ~”, “Here in Busan, there were only shots without ice,” and so on.
Medigate is a membership site for physicians who only need a physician license number to register, and is known as a place where most of the national physicians sign up to exchange opinions and information. If you are not a doctor, you cannot post or comment.
The medical community believes that it is highly likely that a large part of the flu vaccine supplied by Shinsung Pharmaceutical was shipped in paper boxes. Shinsung Pharm has decided to supply a total of 12.59 million doses, of which 5 million have been delivered to hospitals, etc. The official government position so far is that some of these vaccines exposed to room temperature are part of them. At a briefing held by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Osong, Chungbuk, the director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) on the morning of that day, said: “Until now, part of the amount of water is considered to have been exposed to room temperature in the redistribution process by region with refrigerated cars. I need it. “
However, even if moved in a vehicle equipped with a refrigeration facility, if all vaccines were transported in a paper box, the total amount of vaccine supplied could have been exposed to room temperature and deteriorated. One family medicine doctor said in the lead phone call: “All vaccines are made from temperature-sensitive proteins, so refrigeration is the default.” The doctor added: “If it turns out that Shinsung Pharm had delivered it in a paper box, it would be correct to discard all vaccines.”
Shinsung Pharm, a vaccine supplier, explained that it is true that the vaccine was exposed to room temperature without refrigeration for a while, but that it is not a serious enough problem to be exposed for long. In a phone call with the company, an executive from this company said: “A few seconds from the refrigerator cart to the low-temperature warehouse, I have no choice but to be exposed to the ambient temperature. The problem was that the driver of the delivery vehicle pulled into the rest area and turned off the engine for a while. I know that.”
Some point out that the fact that health authorities set too low a price on the flu vaccine business led to the problem of negligence. According to the pharmaceutical industry, the government set the unit price of the vaccine at 8,000 won, which is only half the price of hospital delivery (14,000 to 15,000 won), and the major companies did not bid at all. This time, the supplier was decided as Shinsung Pharmaceutical only after the offer went through five or six buybacks. Shinsung Pharm, a pharmaceuticals retailer, entered the vaccine market for the first time, with a successful national tender for a 4-valent flu vaccine worth 110 billion won.
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