A deputy warns of a health disaster due to pressure from Al-Kazemi’s advisors to buy a Pfizer vaccine. Find out the reason !!
A deputy warns of a health disaster due to pressure from Al-Kazemi’s advisors to buy a Pfizer vaccine. Find out the reason !!
2020-12-07
Dr. Jawad Al-Mousawi, a member of the Parliamentary Health and Environment Committee, stated that there are directions by the Iraqi Council of Ministers to pressure the Ministry of Health to contract with the American company Pfizer to provide the Corona virus vaccine to Iraq
He indicated that this option is scientifically and realistically incorrect, as the American Pfizer vaccine needs storage conditions that are not currently available in Iraq, which is the provision of special and advanced refrigerators and refrigerators that provide a temperature higher than minus 70, which means that the vaccine will be damaged if exposed to a higher temperature than that. The advisors of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers must know this fact and the fact that we suffer from damage to thousands of vaccines in Iraq for previous years, whose degree of preservation is much less than that and does not exceed zero to negative 5
In addition to the high price of the vaccine, as the price of the two doses that ensure the effectiveness of the vaccine is higher than 90%, at about $ 24.
And that the first dose of the vaccine, which does not exceed coverage of 10 to 20% of the population, will not reach Iraq for 4 months from now.
While Al-Mousawi explained that it is better for the Ministry of Health to turn to other companies whose vaccines need simpler storage conditions, lower preservation degrees, cheaper prices, better efficacy, and a shorter processing period than the vaccine from the Fayez company, such as the Astra Zenica vaccine in cooperation with the British University of Oxford or the Chinese Sino Pharm vaccine, both of which can be It is stored in the regular refrigerator and does not require sophisticated or complex storage places, in addition to that the Chinese company Sinopharm vaccine in a single dose provides an effectiveness of more than 95% and at a price less than $ 10 dollars and the Iraqi government can secure a contract for it within the Iraqi-Chinese agreement without paying cash in advance as requested The rest of the companies producing the vaccine
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