Destroyed six million flu vaccine left over from last year
Discarded drugs cost about 40 million euros
EMILIO DE BENITO - Madrid - 10/12/2010
The general secretary of Health, José Martínez Olmos, today confirmed that the communities have already destroyed the flu vaccine left over from last year. In total it is estimated that were some six million doses, which had cost about 40 million euros.
The ministry and the communities they decided to destroy it impossible to reuse the vaccines, as has been distributed this year and included influenza A and two strains, which are expected to circulate this winter (although epidemiological data show that the incidence is still very low). As new preparations have reached, was no other use.
But this pandemic was so little left other dangerous consequences. Several directors of Health said yesterday at the Inter-Territorial Council of the National Health System which met in Santiago concern that the vaccination rate was not as high as other years. It was hoped that 11 million vaccinations, but they are not reaching those proportions, advisers said.
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