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The technical deputy minister of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance (MSPAS), Leslie Samayoa, reported in a summons with deputies from the Parliamentary Opposition Group (GPO) that they cannot acquire pediatric doses because “they ask to renounce national sovereignty.”
“We could not make purchases, because they ask us to renounce national sovereignty (…) Pfizer or Moderna cannot be acquired, because the clauses that exist cannot be acquired, that is why we are waiting for donations,” said Samayoa.
In that sense, he mentioned: “There is a clause that prohibits the purchase of these vaccines and that is why it has not been possible to purchase the pediatric vaccine or normal Pfizer, or Moderna because it is not possible, only the other vaccines.”
AGAINST DONATIONS
Deputy Aldo Dávila expressed: “Now making purchases of vaccines makes us renounce our national sovereignty, but despite the fact that the same vaccine enters, we do receive it because it is donated, so we do not renounce sovereignty, which is a pity.”
Likewise, he questioned: “Why continue to receive donations? If there are resources to buy, why do we have to beg? Why do we have to give pity on an international level? How dare we receive donations when the resources that were intended for that are going to pseudo highways?
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CHILD SECOND DOSE
The infectologist of the Guatemalan Institute of Social Security (IGSS), Ada Vargas, pointed out the importance of the second child dose, “children should receive the doses immediately when we have the availability of the Moderna doses, as soon as it is possible to administer it”.
For this reason, he explained that the partial results of the study they gave for the authorization of the Moderna pediatric vaccine showed that with a single dose the efficacy was 88%, however, 90 days have passed since the first dose.
In that sense, Vargas explained that the scheme will continue, “right now it remains to continue the schemes, we will probably have to have the need to carry out a study on the reinforcements in the future,” he added.
FUTURE DOSES
The deputy minister mentioned that they have been managing two donations of pediatric doses since March.
“There is a donation of 700,000 doses and another 500,000 doses, the negotiation has been going on since March and they are Moderna, the other week they would be entering the 500,000 doses,” he added.
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