“Vaccine against influenza” … Note from the Minister of Health



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The Minister of Public Health, Hamad Hassan, in the interim government, issued a memorandum specifying the people most vulnerable to complications to obtain the seasonal influenza vaccine for the year 2020-2021, how the vaccine is delivered by the importer and disbursed by the pharmacist, and the mechanism for vaccinating health workers in hospitals.

The memorandum states the following:

These measures are framed within the framework of the Ministry’s efforts to confront the Corona pandemic, and with the imminent flu season in Lebanon and its coincidence with the pandemic, where influenza and Corona share many symptoms, according to the following:

First, those most at risk for complications are: children between the ages of six months and five, people over the age of sixty, and people with chronic diseases, especially chronic lung diseases (including asthma) or cardiovascular disease and heart failure. Kidney, liver failure or diabetes, people with weakened immune systems, cancers, pregnant women, and healthcare workers.

Second: The vaccine is disbursed by the pharmacist after obtaining information on the name of the person to be vaccinated, their age, their personal telephone number and if they suffer from chronic diseases.

Third: The importer can deliver the seasonal influenza vaccine to pharmacies and hospitals operating in Lebanon (civil – military), provided that the vaccine is disbursed according to the mentioned mechanism.

Fourth: Hospitals that receive this vaccine exclusively vaccinate their health workers and are committed to the specified official fee under penalty of legal processing and have no right to sell the vaccine.

Fifth: Hospitals are required to prepare a list of vaccinated individuals that includes the person’s name, age, phone number, and job description.

Sixth: The aforementioned list will be sent to the Preventive Medicine Authority to the following email: [email protected]

Seventh: The pharmaceutical inspection in the Ministry of Health will supervise the correct implementation of the Memorandum in pharmacies and hospitals.

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