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The Minister of Public Health, Hamad Hassan, issued a memorandum specifying the people most vulnerable to complications who should receive 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 read: “These measures are part of the Ministry’s efforts to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, and with the approaching flu season in Lebanon and its coincidence with the pandemic, where influenza and Covid-19 share many symptoms of the disease, based on the following:
First, the people most vulnerable to 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 or diabetes failure, people with weakened immune systems, cancers, pregnant women, and healthcare workers.
Second: the vaccine is disbursed by the pharmacist after taking information about 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 aforementioned 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 at 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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