The Minister of Health, María Begoña Yarza, assured this Thursday that the plan for purchasing vaccines abroad, to solve the pandemic, will be “the traditional one that we have had until now,” she said in La Moneda, after the project was announced. base of the center for vaccines and biological products that the University of Chile is building for the country. “Initiatives like these have timeframes that we must recognize are not short-term, therefore, this is a strategy that has a longer horizon,” she said.
Along these lines, regarding the project of the University of Chile, Yarza indicated that “just as in other countries they have several production lines, we are not closed to any of them, we believe that they are complementary. What we can say is that it is not only going to be for the covid vaccine response, but rather this is the beginning of a vaccine production path “.
Linked to the query about the alleged lack of vaccines in some centers in Valparaíso, the minister specified that “there is no lack of stock of vaccines”, but what can happen is that “the logistics of this have some difficulties and therefore, many times it has to do with distribution, the newly installed seremis in the regions have this as their first priority”.
“The seremi of the Valparaíso Region is looking at this moment to see what happened, if the programming was not adequate or if the distribution and response capacity and the times of that were not adequate, in this we are , so there is no lack of stock”.
“We believe that in the course of the next week, these issues, such as the opportunity of the arrival of the vaccine at the vaccination centers, should be resolved,” he concluded.
