Spain will supply 100,000 vials of vaccine with doses for 500,000 people to Africa.
MARCOS GOMEZ JIMENEZ – The Ministry of Health has announced that it is going to donate 20% of smallpox vaccine stockpiles to combat Mpox, that’s all 100,000 vials What would they give for vaccination? 500,000 doses.
On August 22, a measure was already announced, the purpose of which is work on the origin of this new variant (Central Africa). According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and other prestigious organizations, this can be done by donating vaccine doses to the worst-hit countries. “This must be one of the greatest preferences control this emergency international public health,” the health minister said. Monica Garciain relation to a measure that is already effective and tangible.
European Commission announced that he would make a donation 215,000 vaccines. They are believed to do about 2 million are missing vials to be able to carry out vaccinations, with some 10 million doses to contain the current situation.
The Spanish government has called on the European Commission to extend to all member states an offer to donate 20% of their vaccine stocks to address the current situation.
«Collaborate in a coordinated manner with the European Commission, with the donation of vaccines to affected countries being a top priority in the fight against this international public health emergency,” he explains. Susana Montenegro, nurse at the Spanish Research Institute of Nursing The General Council of Nursing (CGE), which believes that our country has sufficient vaccine supply for susceptible population get vaccinated and stop possible situations risk.
Solidarity
In recent months, negotiations on a Pandemic Agreement have been underway within the WHO, and the drafts published provide donation scenarios for pandemic situations, which the Ministry of Health believes should be implemented in the current situation with Mpox.
For this reason, it is believed that there is no point in stockpiling vaccines where there is no problem yet.
“It is vital to get these vaccines to countries around the world. the center of Africa where there is a problem important for public health and contain the situation current firm and solid way“, – notes the CGE expert.
He Director of Public Health Pedro Gullonalso supported the measure on social media site X, saying that stopping the outbreak in the hardest-hit countries is key because “all lives are equally important” Montenegro speaks in the same spirit. “Cooperation and solidarity are necessary to solve problems healthcare worldwide.