And since Thursday, the production of influenza vaccine was experimentally resumed, said the manager Adrian Ionel.
The government has adopted an emergency ordinance regulating the work of the Cantacuzino Institute. It passes from the subordination of the National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation to the subordination of the Ministry of Health.
The financing of the activities carried out by the institute will be realized from own revenues and subsidies granted from the state budget through the budget of the Ministry of Health.
“It is very good that he has returned to his place. While he was under the subordination of the National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, he was short-circuited by the health system, given that there are problems related to nosocomial infections, respiratory infections and others. .
I can tell you exclusively, and with great joy, that today (Thursday – ed.) we started the production of the first experimental batch of influenza vaccine on the new equipment which we have purchased, “said the director general of the institute.
At the same time, Adrian Ionel drew attention to the need for financial support for the restart of the three new manufacturing lines for diphtheria tetanus, rabies and BCG vaccines.
“Financial support is needed to build a new manufacturing line for diphtheria, rabies and BCG vaccines that no one else manufactures. The investment will be repaid in two and a half to three years. But if we are not supported, the activity production will not be resumed on new technologies, then we will return to the serious situation we were in. And the research must remain in place with the production, otherwise, if it were at the National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, we would have an ostrich-camel that would not help anyone “, Ionel added.
The Cantacuzino Institute, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of immunology, began its decline in February 2010 after the National Medicines Agency withdrew its marketing authorization for injectables, including vaccines, as its standard expired. good manufacturing practices. Under these conditions, some National immunization programs have been blocked, and the authorities were forced to import vaccine.
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