The State Health Secretariat reported that the optimal expiration date of the Abdala vaccines against Covid-19 expired on June 29, 2023, despite which, they are applied in the different health centers and units, after the authorization by Cofepris.
The SSE explained that the Federal Commission Against Health Risks (Cofepris) issued the resolution for the “temporary authorization to extend the useful life of Abdala for 18 months”, under some guidelines.
In addition, he reported that the first batch of Abdala arrived at the entity on December 16, 2022 and at the moment it is the only one available to immunize people over 18 years of age against Covid-19.
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The State Health Secretariat reported that the expiration extension process occurs when Cofepris issues a letter pointing out the “extension of the useful life of the vaccines, even when the laboratory has set an expiration date.”
Adds the information from the state agency, that the federal government, through Cofepris, authorizes the application of vaccines with an extended period of validity, but to this is added the fact that state governments cannot acquire this type of vaccine. biological, because even if there were resources, it is not allowed to acquire them, since it is the federal government that sends them.
The validity of a first batch of the Abdala brand Covid-19 vaccine arrived at the entity in December 2022 and its “optimal expiration date” was June 29, 2023.
Last July, the Federal Commission Against Health Risks issued the resolution for the temporary authorization to extend the useful life of the Abdala vaccine, to 18 months, in storage conditions of 2 to 8 degrees Celsius, according to the guidelines. for the conservation of biologicals.
The SSE added that “there is no previous batch of the Abdala vaccine against Covid 19, or any other vaccine against the disease, whose expiration date is greater than those that reached their useful life in June 2023, since until 2020 “There was no vaccine against Covid-19.”
The latest number of Abdala vaccines applied released by the State Coordination of Vaccination Days against Covid-19, of the Welfare Secretariat, was 43,061 doses, to people aged 18 years and older.
These vaccines have been applied in the 237 units of the health systems in the state, which are the IMSS, ISSSTE, IMSS-Bienestar, Sedena and the State Health Secretariat, and correspond mostly to booster doses.
In addition, on October 18 (2023), a new shipment of 152 thousand Abdala doses arrived that were distributed in the different health centers and units at the state level, and like the first batch, they are applied under the permission or authorization of extension on behalf of Cofepris.
2023-11-04 11:01:51
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