The Comptroller General warned that there are more than 4,440,000 doses of the vaccine against COVID1-19, from the Moderna and AstraZeneca laboratories, distributed nationwide that have an expiration date between November and next December. He indicated that this situation generates the risk of loss of these products and that there is an affectation to State resources.
According to releasethe Trade Orientation Report 055-2022-OCI/5991/SOOas of September 30, 2022, the National Center for the Supply of Strategic Health Resources (Cenares), located in the district of Jesús María, had 4 million 143 thousand doses from the laboratory in its warehouse modern that they will begin to expire between November 27 and December 13; while the 297 thousand doses from the Astrazeneca laboratorycould expire between December 20 and 27 if they are not inoculated on time.
| LABORATORY | EXPIRATION | NUMBER OF DOSES |
|---|---|---|
| modern (adult) | November 2022 (days 27 and 28) December 2022 (days 1, 4, 5, 7 and 13) |
681,900 3’461,500 |
| AstraZeneca | December 2022 (days 20, 22, 26, and 27) |
297,000 |
| TOTAL | 4’440,400 |
The Comptroller clarified in the report that These figures do not include the 2,400,000 doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine, which the Peruvian government donated to the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health last September, with an expiration date of 2022..
“This donation is made at times when evidence of a downward trend in the vaccination rate and there is a significant number of Peruvian citizens, especially children between zero and twelve years of age, who have not completed their vaccination schedule against COVID-19″says the Comptroller.
According to official figures from the Ministry of Health (Minsa), published in REUNIS, as of November 20, 2022, the first dose has been applied to 93.90% of the target adult population, with the second dose covering 90.14%. , with the third dose, at 73.33%, and with the fourth dose, at 22.84%. In the case of the pediatric vaccine, 48.71% of the target pediatric population has received the first dose, 38.72% has a second dose, and only 13.70% completed the third dose.
Faced with the risk of starting a fifth wave of COVID-19 infections in the fortnight of Decemberas the Minsa has projected, the Comptroller General called on the citizens to go to vaccination centersto complete your inoculation scheme.
The Comptroller specified that the supreme audit entity has communicated to the General Directorate of Cenares the results of the checking service 055-2022-OCI/5991/SOO in order to present the corrective and preventive measures that it will adopt to avoid the expiration of vaccines against COVID-19.
