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Ana Gomes revealed on Twitter this Tuesday that, after three months on the waiting list, she got tired of waiting for the phone call from the pharmacy to say that her dose of the flu vaccine was finally available and that she solved the problem herself. “I just took it, brought by a friend from France,” said the candidate for the presidency of the Republic in that social network. However, the law violates the regulations on the use of medicines in Portugal.
Tired of waiting for availability at the pharmacy where I signed up in September, a friend from France just gave me a flu shot. The worst thing of all was hearing from the pharmaceutical companies that there are vaccines, but reserved for certain people from certain companies, who bought them. How is it, @DGSaude?
– Ana Gomes (@AnaMartinsGomes) December 1, 2020
Contacted by the Observer, the official source of Infarmed, an entity that regulates the drug market, explained that it is forbidden to bring drugs from abroad for personal use. In addition, it is also risky for the health of those who use them.
“The importation of medicines for the users’ own use does not have legal support and it carries risks to the health of consumers. The safety, quality and efficacy conditions required for a drug may not be guaranteed, neither during the purchase process nor during the transport itself. Consumers you can only buy drugs in pharmacies (community and hospital) and in the places of sale of medicines without prescription (MNSRM) ”, explains the regulator.
In the response sent to the Observer, Infarmed details that “in the case of people who travel to Portugal and who bring medicines for their own use, they must be accompanied by a copy of the medical prescriptions or a statement from the doctor that describes the medicines they usually use.” . This, in fact, can be read in a document published on the regulator’s website, which also clearly explains that “if there is a need to use a medicine that is not authorized / available in Portugal, it must be obtained through an authorization for special use, which is only allowed to community and hospital pharmacies ”.
Contacted by the observer, Ana Gomes guarantees that she did not know that the act was illegal. “I don’t know, nobody told me it was illegal,” he says. The candidate for the presidency of the Republic also says that the vaccine brought from France by her friend, ended up being administered in a pharmacy, as if it were one of those available in Portugal. In that pharmacy, he assures, they told him that “normally” they only administered vaccines “from there”, but since they had no vaccines and Ana Gomes had that vaccine, “they registered everything” and “gave the vaccine.
“They posed no problem”He added, explaining that he was asked for the citizen card and, after the vaccine was administered your data was recorded as vaccinated.
Until then, he says, the vaccine was always kept in the freezer and was “whole” when he took it to the pharmacy. “This friend of mine is Portuguese and lives in France, she took the vaccine to her husband, who is British, but meanwhile her husband had taken it and she had one more vaccine,” the presidential candidate told the Observer, explaining that it was how he had access to the vaccine, after having been waiting since September at your pharmacy. “Not only did I sign up in September, but I went to several pharmacies to ask and they told me there was no vaccine, I already went to two or three pharmacies and they told me that,” he says.
The Belém candidate has been harshly criticized on Twitter for the post. Shame on tweeting. If I was undecided, I simply decided my vote ”, wrote a user of the social network. “These ‘female Trump’ moments are a shame. Shame on others. I ordered it at my traditional pharmacy in Gaia and received it. And I am anything but important. “
To one of these criticisms, Ana Gomes responded by guaranteeing that found “no schema” and that she only accepted the offer of her friend, who “had brought the vaccine for a high-risk relative, who in the meantime had managed to get it.” To the user who criticized it, the candidate for the Presidency of the Republic suggests that he “relax”, “for example contemplating the Bugio”.
I did not receive any schematics. I accepted an offer from a friend who had brought the vaccine to a high-risk family member, who had managed to take it in the meantime. How about going to rest, for example contemplating the Bugio?
– Ana Gomes (@AnaMartinsGomes) December 1, 2020
In the original tweet, the PS activist and 66-year-old former MEP had also taken the opportunity to directly challenge the General Directorate of Health (DGS), on the report that a pharmacist had made, realizing that, despite From the unavailability to the general public, the vaccines will be available, “but reserved for certain people from certain companies, who bought them.”
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