Vaccination against COVID-19. (Photo: CRH Archive)
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(CRHoy.com) Two officials from the Ministry of Health participated in a virtual talk in which trained members of an organization against COVID-19 vaccination on how to report adverse effects from inoculation.
The forum was held this Tuesday through the Zoom platform and was jointly promoted by the Health Board of the San Rafael de Alajuela Hospital, the Bicentennial group, the Municipality of Alajuela and had the participation of the governing body in Health.
In the talk, which lasted more than two hours, Xiomara Vega, coordinator of the Ministry’s National Center for Pharmacovigilance, and Ileana Roverssi, also a member of that body, explained step by step how to make reports before the online notification system and electronic form, Noti Facedra.
(Transmission screenshot)
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The transmission was moderated by Jorge Navarro, a member of the Bicentennial organization, from where they qualify the biological against the virus, as “a product of doubtful safety and efficacy”.
“How do I make sure they don’t force me to use a product without health registration, where the FDA has already confirmed that it is the cause of myocarditis and pericarditis and the population doesn’t know it?”
“Fortunately, the Ministry of Health, the Bicentennial group, the Alajuela hospital and the women’s office, we are working together on this,” Navarro stated during the talk.
Even pharmacovigilance officers responded several rounds of questions from talk participants, who claimed to have suffered reactions after vaccination against SARS-CoV-2.
Despite the constant slogans against this drug, the representatives of the pharmacovigilance center recalled that this vaccine it is safe and effective.
“The health registry is what assures us that a medicine is of quality, safe and effective, but in this case, like that of vaccines, we have been able to see that there are emergency uses. These emergency uses also go through a procedure that ensures and demonstrates that these products are safe, effective and comply with what is stipulated,” said Roverssi.
promoted
The activity was promoted by the Municipality of Alajuela on their social networks, where they informed their followers about this training on how to report suspected adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Through the account of the Mayor’s Office of Alajuela, This talk was also promoted on July 19.
“The Municipality of Alajuela invites you this July 19 to the training on how to report adverse reactions to vaccines against COVID-19. Let’s take advantage of this resource and if you have had adverse reactions to vaccines, report it “, they published.
Organization
The promotional image of the activity has the logos of the municipality, the Bicentennial group, the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America (COMISCA) and the Ministry of Health.
This medium consulted with the governing body about their participation in the talk. However, at the time of publication of this note, the institution had not responded to the questions asked through its press area.
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