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On Friday afternoon, the German Ministry of Health reported that The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has allowed doctors to withdraw six doses from each BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine vial of a pandemic coronavirus vaccine.
In response, outgoing Health Minister A.Veryga addressed current Health Minister A.Dulkis and the Ministry of Health on his Facebook account, saying they had wasted doses of vaccines.
“You did not take responsibility, you spilled the vaccines. Or maybe not spilled? Maybe they were to someone anyway? For someone who is not on any priority list?” – writes a politician on Facebook.
“Now it is practically official that the EMA (European Medicines Agency) has agreed that the Pfizer vaccine vial contains 6 doses instead of 5. Some countries did not expect this because it was all more than obvious and more people were vaccinated. We … spill the long-awaited vaccines.
Why did this happened? This is because the leadership of the ministry is not afraid of failing to properly manage the pandemic, but is afraid of criminal or administrative responsibility. This was made very clear by the vice minister. The price of fear is that thousands of doses have simply been thrown away, although they could have been used to vaccinate the same doctors, teachers or residents of nursing homes, ”says A. Vergaga indignantly.
According to him, an extreme situation is not the time when “audit logic” can be followed. Sometimes you have to make unusual decisions that are not written anywhere or that have not yet been implemented, he emphasizes.
“Do you think the use of COVID blood plasma in relapsed patients has been fully researched and clinically approved when taken by doctors? Think again. The same doctors studied and studied the disease during the COVID pandemic, recognized it, and had to do what they are now writing about in textbooks.
It is necessary to save lives and that, unfortunately, is medicine. It is not a ledger where all the columns are put together in ordered amounts that match the precision of the pennies. And the new management did not understand it, ”says A.Veryga.
Lithuania has so far only vaccinated the population with coronavirus vaccines made by BioNTech and Pfizer. They are called ‘ice’ vaccines because they must be stored at extremely low temperatures.
The package insert states that after reconstitution with 1.8 ml of sodium chloride, each 2.25 ml vial of substance contains 5 doses of 0.3 ml vaccine.
Even before the information from the EEA agency appeared, on Thursday the order of A. Dulkis came into effect, which stipulates that institutions must guarantee vaccination according to the summary of characteristics of the vaccine and the procedure established in the description. . This means that doctors cannot withdraw more than 5 doses of vaccine from a vaccine container.
That day, the Deputy Minister of Health Živilė Simonaitytė assured that the minister could not allow the population to be vaccinated at his discretion.
“I understand the wish, but it would be illegal to use the sixth dose at this time, and then the minister would have to take responsibility, and probably criminal, not just administrative,” he said Thursday, noting that the sixth dose would be discussed by a panel of experts.
However, on Friday, the EEA confirmed that the Agency’s Medical Committee had recommended that the vaccine information be updated to indicate that each package contained six doses of the product.
Hanno Kautz, a spokesman for the German Health Ministry, told reporters in Berlin on Friday that the change would take effect immediately and by 20 percent. will increase the number of doses, writes BNS.
Many doctors in the European Union had withdrawn six doses from a BioNTech / Pfizer vial prior to this decision. The United States and the United Kingdom have already allowed it.
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