Health is asking Pfizer to offer early childhood vaccines this month

Executive Secretary of Oversight in Health and the Environment, Ethel Maciel, confirmed the shortage of pediatric vaccines against COVID-19 in the country and is negotiating to expect new doses from Pfizer to arrive until the end of January.

We received the ministry with a shortage of children’s vaccines. We will try to negotiate better, but the expected arrival date is the end of January. Ethel Maciel, Executive Secretary for Health and Environmental Control

The Ministry met this morning with Pfizer and will hold a new meeting at 4 pm.

The prospective vaccines refer to a contract already signed by the previous department of the government’s Ministry of Health Jair Bolsonaro (pl).

According to the secretariat, the file is trying to anticipate the arrival of:

• 3.2 million doses for children 6 months to 4 years old
• About 4.5 million doses for children ages 5 to 11

States have a shortage of doses for children Therefore, vaccination against Covid disease is delayed in different age groups.

The problem of vaccinating children extends to other diseases. Between January and November 2022, 33.1% of infants and children (up to 11 years of age) attended primary care consultations nationwide They haven’t been vaccinated, columnist Carlos Madero revealed.

Confidentiality revoked

Massiel also affirmed that the ministry will cancel a decree stipulating the confidentiality of information from immunization technical rooms.

He explained that “as a result of this decree, several scientific societies have refused to participate in the Ethnic Immunization Chamber because it involves confidentiality in the information discussed.”