Council of State orders that the EPS must attend to any adverse effect of the covid-19 vaccine

The Council of State published this March 14 a statement ordering the New EPS to diagnose a patient who, according to him, has been presented “severe health conditions, after applying the vaccine” against covid-19, because “until now it is unknown whether or not these difficulties are associated with the dose of Jansen that was given to him in July of last year.”

Additionally, the Council of State ordered that the EPS should take care of the exams, supply of medicines and “how much procedure is necessary to preserve the member’s right to health”.

The court’s decision is due to a lawsuit filed by the citizen, who alleges that he is a victim of the violation of his fundamental rights due to some omissions in which he affirms that the Government and the New EPS vs. “The health problems that he has been suffering from and that, according to him, may have been caused by an allergic reaction to the vaccine.”

The plaintiff indicated that he has had severe complications in the respiratory system and has experienced severe pain in different parts of the body, but maintained that the EPS has limited itself to authorizing some disabilities, without providing a clear medical diagnosis.

His action was aimed at having the necessary studies carried out to establish whether the application of the dose was the cause of his conditions and to receive the necessary treatment. In addition, it intended that the entities in charge of the matter be forced to offer explanations about the surveillance and monitoring activities that they have carried out within the framework of the national vaccination plan against covid-19.

For this reason, the Council of State urges the Ministry of Health to identify the people who, like the plaintiff, have suffered some type of deterioration in their health after applying the vaccine, so that they can undergo the treatments. respective.

According to the court, the entity is not only responsible for guaranteeing all services related to the enjoyment of the right to health, but must intervene in the event of any adverse event of the covi-19 vaccines, “through the VigiFlow system, and when closure is carried out, it is up to send the reports to the departmental or district Health Secretariat or the entity that takes its place and to INVIMA”.

Faced with the refusal that, according to the plaintiff, the EPS has had in transcribing the incapacities that the prepaid medicine company has processed, the court indicated that it must inform the National Health Superintendence of these facts so that this body can carry out the case investigations. In addition, the room pointed out that the Government ordered the creation of a Council for the Evaluation of Adverse Reactions to the Vaccine Against Covid-19, which operates within the Institute for the Evaluation of Health Technologies, a unit to which the actor and follow up on his case.

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