This Saturday, President Gustavo Petro arrived in Paz de Río, in Boyacá, to meet with the community and address the problems that afflict the region. In the middle of the work table, he reiterated the importance of Colombia resumes the manufacture of vaccines.
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The president explained that a few years ago the National Institute of Health produced vaccines for humans and Vecol for animals, a model that he seeks to recover: “Now it is about doing both, but start a production of vaccines in Colombia made by the State through your company Vecol and hopefully using these companies that are in Drugs the Rebaja“.
For this, the president explained that the Drug Rebate must be transferred to the Ministry of Healthin such a way that this company contributes to the implementation of three large programs: that each point of the drugstore is part of the Primary Care Centers, that it is in charge of the delivery and sale of “much cheaper” medicines and that, in addition , take advantage of the three drug production companies that it has to “join the production of vaccines with Vecol.”
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“That the fear that there is in some for this to come true cease, Drug Rebate must be a public institution, the domain has already been extinguished, it belongs to the State, but at the service of the most needy people in the countrycovers the entire country, so that is already the effort of the health reform,” confirmed Petro.
It should be remembered that the production of vaccines in the country ceased in the 90s because the world rules for the manufacture of biologicals changed, in such a way that the governments of that time preferred to import them. Hence, At present, the vaccines that are applied are from foreign pharmaceutical companies.
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At that time, according to figures from the National Institute of Health (INS), Colombia produced, between 1996 and 1998, two and a half million doses of vaccines against yellow fever, 140,000 of human anti-rabies, six and a half million BCG ( against tuberculosis), almost six million triple DPT vaccine (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus), 11 million tetanus toxoid, 30,000 doses of anti-venom serum and 5,000 anti-rabies serum.
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