Ministry of Home Health to receive more than 8.6 million doses of flu vaccine to guarantee coverage for the following year, while ensuring that the same number of doses is used for this year, but with economic savings between 5 and 38 percent, equivalent to approximately 23,000 million pesos.
The selection procedure was carried out in Public Offer No. 80-0026-LPU24, with the aim of ensuring that the population gets a timely vaccination against the flu.
during the next year, as established in the National Vaccination Calendar and also to make effective use of the resources assigned for this purpose.
By optimizing the manufacturing process, cost efficiencies between 5 and 38 percent were generated in the price of unit doses of the monovalent, pediatric trivalent, and trivalent influenza seasonal influenza vaccines.
On the other hand, to prevent unnecessary vaccinations, the development of the numbering system managed to increase the number of vaccinations received.
Between 2021 and 2023, 2,536,510 doses of flu vaccine expired unused at a cost of approximately 14 million dollars.
Based on the preliminary administrative, economic and technical analyses, and the documents in the aforementioned file, the evaluation committee recommended to award the offer to the company Abbot Laboratories Argentina SA for an amount of 5,150,000 units of the single-dose Adult Seasonal Influenza vaccine and 1,1670,000 units of the Seasonal Trivalent Pediatric Influenza Vaccine.
The award of the tender related to the Trivalent Adjuvanted Influenza Influenza vaccine was given to the company Sinergium Biotech SA for a sum of 2.300.000
units.
“The Ministry reaffirms its commitment to continue implementing new strategies to ensure greater effectiveness in vaccination campaigns.
The National Immunization Program is part of the Strategic Health Plan, which aims to reorganize, modernize and stabilize the health system through
efficient procurement processes and intelligent use of resources,” the health package said.
2024-10-28 23:05:00
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