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The candidate for the Presidency of the Republic Ana Gomes revealed this Tuesday on Twitter that, after three months on the waiting list, she was “tired of waiting” for the pharmacy contact to inform her that her dose of the flu vaccine was finally available and decided to take a vaccine that a friend brought him from France. The 66-year-old socialist candidate wanted to denounce the existence of vaccines “reserved for certain people, certain companies”, but ended up involuntarily confessing that she had committed an illegality – Infarmed, the National Authority for Medicines and Health Products, recalls that the importation of medicines for personal use is prohibited and there are “health risks” associated with this practice.
On a heart attack note sent to the newspaper Observer, the regulator is clear: “The importation of drugs for their own use by users is not legally supported and presents health risks for consumers.” In addition, the note continues, “the safety, quality and efficacy conditions required for a drug may not be guaranteed, neither during the acquisition process nor during the transport itself.”
Therefore, it concludes that “consumers can only purchase drugs in pharmacies (community and hospital) and in places of sale of non-prescription drugs (MNSRM)”
To the same newspaper, Ana Gomes guarantees that she was unaware of the illegality. “I’m not aware, nobody told me it was illegal,” he said.
Ana Gomes explains that the vaccine brought by Portugal was administered in a pharmacy, as if it were a vaccine produced in Portugal. Despite having stated in that unidentified pharmacy that “normally” they only administered vaccines “from there”, because they did not have available vaccines, they did not put up barriers and “registered everything” and “gave the vaccine.” The citizen card was requested and his data as vaccinated were recorded.
The candidate also assured that the vaccine was always kept cold and that it was “whole” when she 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 her husband had taken it in the meantime and she had one more vaccine,” she explained to Observer.
In October, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was a photographer to get vaccinated against the flu and guaranteed that there would be no shortage of vaccines, but that was not the message pharmacy. Ana Gomes has been waiting for the flu vaccine since September, which several pharmacies have complained of not receiving yet. “Not only did I sign up in September, but I went to several pharmacies to ask and they told me that there was no vaccine, I already went to two or three pharmacies and they told me that,” he added.
By 2020, there will be two million doses to administer within the NHS and 500,000 for pharmacies, but in a pandemic year, the race for vaccines can create problems in stocks pharmacy.
Although the number of Portuguese waiting for a vaccine is still high, the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, warned that “there are no more vaccines available on the world market.” “It is important that people realize that only those who have criteria should be vaccinated (…). I did not get vaccinated, some may have done it without criteria, “said Marta Temido in mid-November, when the country was still waiting for the arrival of 200,000 doses of vaccines.
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