The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved this Wednesday the bill that authorizes private companies to buy vaccines against Covid-19, which had already been previously authorized by Congress.
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“Proposed test chamber that allows companies to buy vaccines against Covid-19 for the immunization of their employees, as long as the same amount is donated to the Unified Health System. The proposal goes to the Federal Senate,” said the Chamber.
The proposal had 317 votes in favor and 120 against in the plenary session of the Chamber. Once some changes proposed by some legislators are analyzed during this day’s session, they must continue to be processed in the Senate.
If the Senate approves the document, private companies will be able to purchase vaccines to immunize their employees for free, and they will even be able to do so before groups considered the most vulnerable in the country, as soon as they deliver half of the purchased dose to the Government.
In addition, the purchase of formulas approved by any foreign health authority recognized and certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) will be released, although they have not yet been authorized by the National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil (Anvisa).
However, the draft law establishes that laboratories that have contracts signed with the Ministry of Health, will only be able to negotiate with private initiative after fulfilling their delivery commitments with the Brazilian government.
Brazil | The Chamber of Deputies approved the project that allows private vaccination against covid19. The measure frees the immunization of officials, partners and service providers, without authorization from the Sanitary Surveillance Agency or delivery of the doses to the Ministry of Health pic.twitter.com/j8YzjTmAib
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April 7, 2021
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The project modifies a law sanctioned last month by President Jair Bolsonaro, which allowed the private sector to purchase vaccines, but with conditions, such as “donating” all negotiated doses to the public health system until the immunization of priority groups was completed. in the country.
The new document makes some of these demands more flexible in order to speed up the vaccination campaign, which began on January 17 and is progressing slowly, since so far only 10 percent of the population has received the first dose.
Left-wing deputies denounced that private vaccination will generate a dispute for vaccines with the public health system, since it segregates vaccination, breaking the order of priority and can open a clandestine market for the sale of vaccines, even fake vaccines.
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