Hugo Lopez-Gatell, undersecretary of Health, confirmed that the foundations have already been established for the state governments as well as the physical and legal persons of the social and private sectors, can contribute to the Covid-19 vaccination.
The guidelines were published in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF), and in accordance with López-Gatell, although this matter is of interest to private entities To protect people, whether by philanthropic donation or by sale, they must notify in a mandatory way about the acquisition of vaccinations to Federal Health Secretariat (In).
“The agreement requires them to inform and communicate the Health Secretary to carry out all the punctual monitoring of the groups that are being vaccinated, the amounts and how the progress is going. They must report the doses they are applying ”, he added in this regard. Jose Luis Alomy, Director General of Epidemiology.
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López-Gatell He also pointed out that we are currently in a scenario where there is very little availability of Covid-19 vaccines In the world and vaccine producers have decided that they are going to sell vaccines to national governments, so he said that if a state government could acquire vaccines it would be undermining the national objective.
However, he ruled out that the latter could happen.
“Fortunately, this risk does not exist to the extent that private individuals want to purchase vaccines, as the producing companies would tell them ‘wait,'” he said.
Although he considered that it is a coordinated effort, where federal entities or social and private entities collaborate with the Ssa to achieve the vaccination policy, he called on maintaining respect and adherence to the national vaccination policy.
What are the guidelines established by the DOF?
The agreement published in the DOF, establishes in the face of the current health emergency, it is required to establish an extraordinary action in matters of general health, for which competence is given to the Health Secretary to entrust the states, in their capacity as health authorities, as well as individuals and legal entities from the social and private sectors, to implement the vaccination strategy against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Given this, it is called to define joint actions so that whoever seeks to acquire on their own Covid-19 vaccines adhere to the following guidelines:
- All vaccinations and supplies must be of the highest quality available and meet the necessary sanitary requirements.
- The procedures for the authorization of the registration, importation and release of vaccinations will be considered as a priority due to their importance for the public health and national security, and that in emergency cases, these procedures will be attended to immediately.
- Present the contracts that they sign with the pharmaceutical authorized in Mexico, for the acquisition of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
- Report the number of doses of vaccinations acquired against SARS-CoV-2 virus and those applied to the general population, with disaggregated information in accordance with the National Vaccination Policy against the SARS-CoV-2 virus for the prevention of Covid-19 in Mexico.
- Respect the calendar, as well as the priority for groups of people, established in the aforementioned National Vaccination Policy, to avoid duplication.
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- Implement the pertinent prevention and control measures in accordance with the criteria issued by the Federal Ministry of Health, and
Guarantee, within the scope of its competence, the traceability of the vaccination process in charge, and inform the Federal Ministry of Health on its monitoring, with the frequency established by the agency itself.
- The governments of the federative entities in their capacity as health authorities, as well as the physical and legal persons of the social and private sectors must acquire with their resources and directly the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines that they require to provide the services at their expense.
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