On July 13, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health sent an urgent report to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on the city's vaccine needs in the expanded immunization program. According to the review, the city needs more than 1.7 million doses of 12 types of vaccines in 2023 and the first half of 2024.
Of which, the most needed is oral polio vaccine (OPV) in 2023, needing more than 121 thousand doses, the first 6 months of 2024 needing more than 126 thousand doses; DPT-VGB-HiB vaccine (5-in-1 vaccine) in 2023 needs more than 110 thousand doses, the first 6 months of 2024 needs more than 73 thousand doses...
The Department of Health said that this report is a proactive step to help the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee send a document to the Ministry of Health to report on vaccine needs in the local Expanded Immunization Program.
List of vaccine needs for the expanded immunization program.
Recently, Ho Chi Minh City has run out of some vaccines in the expanded immunization program, and some vaccination facilities are having to make a list of children who have not been vaccinated with the missing vaccines to vaccinate them as soon as the supply is available. This situation is not only happening in Ho Chi Minh City but is also spreading to many provinces and cities across the country.
The problems of vaccine shortages focus on local budget allocation, procurement price reference and implementation organization... In June, the Ministry of Health also received many documents from provinces and cities on this issue. At the same time, it requested the Ministry of Health to carry out centralized bidding, order or negotiate prices for vaccines in the Expanded Immunization Program.
However, according to the Ministry of Health, for domestically produced vaccines, this agency is currently unable to conduct procurement through national centralized bidding or procurement in special cases according to the Bidding Law. Therefore, the Ministry has proposed that the Government issue a Resolution allowing the implementation of a vaccine procurement mechanism for the expanded immunization program from local budgets.
In recent times, the city has lacked many types of vaccines in the expanded immunization program.
On July 10, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh signed and issued Resolution 98 on allocating the central budget in 2023 to the Ministry of Health to purchase vaccines for the Expanded Immunization Program. According to the Resolution, the central budget will continue to be allocated to the Ministry of Health to purchase vaccines for the Expanded Immunization Program for all localities nationwide. The implementation funding will be taken from the central budget reserve.
The Government assigned the Ministry of Health to guide localities in planning and determining vaccine needs for each type, necessary vaccine structure, list and roadmap for receiving each type of vaccine to ensure the roadmap for increasing the number of vaccines in the Expanded Immunization Program.
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