The Ministry of health of Ukraine purchased instead of the Russian TB Vaccine Polish and in the future will try to procure Vaccines production in Russia, said on the first day of the week at a press conference the Ukrainian health Minister Alexander Kvitashvili.
"The Russian Vaccine to Ukraine will not go. BCG vaccine, which currently are carried across the country, Polish production, and We are going to try Russian manufacturers continue to avoid the Ukrainian market, especially BCG, as the quality of these Russian vaccines doubt ", - quotes the words Kvitashvili Ukrainian news Agency ".
The Minister said that over the past three years Ukraine imported only TB Vaccine produced in Russia.
Kvitashvili also informed that the country's demand for the polio vaccine, the vaccination coverage of children under 1 year of life at the present time in different regions ranges from 30 to 50%, for the year covered completely at the expense of humanitarian aid from the canadian government and UNICEF.
"We'll even summer to start a new wave of polio vaccinations for those who have not been vaccinated in recent years. On polio huge problem in the country: in 2009, the coverage is somewhere around 30 %, and this is very dangerous for the state - God forbid if there was an epidemic of polio, this will have very serious consequences. For this reason, We will conduct a large vaccination campaign, and We have all the resources, " - said the head of the Ukrainian Ministry of health.
according to his statement, Ukraine buys fifteen different vaccines.
"by the procurement that took place in 2014, preparations are already imported and transported. Our purchases of the current year will be held in the autumn, for this reason there will not be any issues in overlapping import ", - assured Kvitashvili.
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