Too bad. With the amount of money spent on flu vaccines could have solved many problems in health care. After declaring dead the pandemic, the four million vaccines that are left are not valid, it must be discarded. Thus, unnecessary flu vaccines go to waste.
Or what is the same: more than 28 million Euros, the price that the lot has an estimated four million vaccines Health leftover throw it away. In particular, the fate of such an incinerator will be medical arsenal.
For this, the Ministry of Health has asked each council to take charge of doses of vaccines that are in your control, and are they who are responsible for making a pharmaceutical distributors for the latter to dispose of vaccines the same way you do with a drug that is no longer valid, as do, for example, with the seasonal flu vaccine.
Of course, there is little difference: the seasonal flu vaccine could cost 70 cents, while the price of flu vaccine may amount to 7.3 Euros.
Of the 13 million vaccines purchased by Spain to fight the pandemic, have been used only three. Of the remaining 10, four million were donated to the Pan American Health Organization and other two are kept in stock as a preventive measure. Therefore, we have four million vaccines do not work and you will have to pull: 28 million Euros in the trash: who is responsible for such waste?
However, the WHO warns that next year’s flu vaccine doses be included in the immunization against the flu, so it will be trivalent. In addition, it is estimated that the Ministry will be done with about 10 million flu shots in winter.