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Such a registration is very important, say medical experts against RTL News. They have a lot of confidence in the new vaccines, but because something can always go wrong, people must be able to be traced quickly.
There must be a system in which the general practitioner, the company doctor or the GGD employee, who will administer the vaccines, record which vaccine someone will receive, along with the exact number of the delivery from which the injection comes, the so-called batch.
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“It is five minutes to midnight”, warns professor Miriam Sturkenboom of the UMC Utrecht. “There really has to be a solution if we want to start vaccinating on January 4, as Hugo de Jonge says. We just need a good roadmap so that at least the people who have to do it know what to do.”
Chance of mistake
“There can be a small error in something. There are of course a lot of control mechanisms to prevent that, but we cannot rule it out. And when that happens, it is essential that we know that it is limited to a particular batch, so that it is not the entire vaccine and that you can quickly write to the people concerned. “
Sturkenboom is an international expert in research into side effects of vaccines. For years she researched the side effects of a vaccine against the swine flu, Pandemrix. Now she is in charge of a large European project Access that will soon have to detect any unexpected side effects of the corona vaccines at an early stage.
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Sturkenboom says her concerns are shared by RIVM and Lareb, the organization that registers side effects of medicines and vaccines.
Be prepared for the unexpected
“We have to be prepared for the unexpected”, says Agnes Kant of Lareb, director. “The vaccines that are coming are very well researched for safety. Nevertheless, it is also our job to be prepared for the unexpected. So if there are specific safety problems or side effects, we want to be able to investigate very well which vaccine and which serial number. it was so that you also know which patient and which vaccinated person had which vaccine and serial number. “
The World Health Organization (WHO) wants to get the vaccines produced as soon as possible. That is why the WHO does not require a scan code on every bottle, but on every box. Pfizer contains a minimum of 119 and a maximum of 995 bottles with the vaccine. Five doses can be obtained from one such bottle. Those bottles do have a number, but no bar or OR code that is quick and easy to scan. And soon there will be other brands of vaccines on the market that will label their vaccines in a different way.
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The National General Practitioners’ Association (LHV) says in a response that it has’ recently ‘entered into intensive consultations with the Ministry of Health about the registration of the vaccines.
Late December
“We would like to know exactly which information we have to record and to what extent it differs from what we already record ourselves. We also want to know how to register it in the most efficient way possible,” said a spokesperson. He thinks they will certainly figure it out, but for the time being the talks are still ongoing.
“We are working hard on a central register”, says Minister De Jonge of Public Health. He expects that it will be ready to register vaccination data at the end of December. However, it is not yet clear how and under what conditions that register will be fed with data from general practitioners and other healthcare workers. The RIVM says that they are in talks with the parties that will introduce the vaccinations in order to connect their registration systems to the central registration system of the RIVM, where possible.
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