Peru’s College of Nursing Dean Josefa Vazquez Cevallos, Dean of the College of Nursing of Peru, Josefa Vazquez Cevallos, expressed concern about the possibility of nearly 11 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine expiring in the coming months, following a recent warning from the Comptroller General.
“Since the leadership of the College of Nurses obviously we are concerned that… a significant number of vaccines may be past their expiration date; however, we believe because (there is) a story that nurses in the 1980s eradicated various diseases such as polio and measles by vaccinating house after house…” she said.
For this reason, the dean urged the general population to use doses of the vaccine against new coronavirusso that the medicines are not lost.
“I appeal to the entire Peruvian population, parents and teachers who come to get vaccinated because there are vaccines and nurses willing to vaccinate them,” he said.
In this sense, Vásquez Cevallos said that his colleague had requested a meeting with Health Minister Jorge López to propose new vaccination strategies at the national level and to study the situation of nurses hired under the CAS.
“If we don’t increase the first level of assistance, we will not have an increase in vaccination coverage,” he said.
The controller asks Minsa to support the absence of expired vaccines
The Ministry of Health denied the information provided last Tuesday Controller over 11 million vaccines have been lost. In this sense, the institution has confirmed that there are no doses in the warehouses of Cenares with a risk of expiration in the next two months.
The organization’s statement explains that the vaccines have an immediate expiration date of September 30 and are being rolled out across the country to close vaccine gaps. This is in line with the schedule set by the Minsa Immunization Authority.
However, Patricia Suarez, Deputy Head of Health Controllersaid Connection News from the RPP that Minsa has not sent them any information confirming the absence of expired vaccines, as the watchdog warns.
“The organization has an obligation to reports Controllerreport to the control commission on the corrective and preventive actions taken, attaching the relevant supporting information,” he said.
“If they are going to make us aware of actions regarding our institution’s records, they should be through official channels with full documentation that allows us to confirm. This information is provided Ministry of Health care We are going to confirm this, but so far we have not received any messages,” the official stressed, demanding to send the relevant information.
Source: RPP
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