More Moldovan MPs demand that authorites allow sale of anti-flu vaccine in drug stores

Chisinau, 12 October /MOLDPRES/ - More lawmakers ask the authorities to allow the commercialization of the anti-flu vaccine in drug stores. An approach to this end has been submitted to the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry (MSMPS) and the Medicine and Medical Devices Agency (AMDM). The head of the parliament’s commission for social protection, health and family, Ghenadie Buza, made statements to this effect at a news briefing today.    

According to Buza, the overburdening of the health system and the avoiding of the infection with COVID-19 prompts the urgent need to give the residents free access to the anti-flu vaccine, which is to be sold in drug stores. To this end, more MPs demanded the urgent revising of the normative acts which regulate this sector.  

Buza said that vaccination against flu was provided only to risk groups’ members, who account for 5-7 per cent of all Moldova’s population. ‘’Other states’ experience shows the necessity to extend the access and ensure the availability of vaccines on the pharmaceutical market to all categories of residents. In all EU countries, and not only, vaccines are sold freely to the population in drug stores, certainly, with the observance of the regulations set by the state,’’ Buza noted.  

The lawmaker specified that, in the current situation, the prophylaxis of diseases through residents’ immunization, especially the providing of access to vaccines, including from one’s own resources, represent a cost-effective investment, which will diminish the social, economic and medical damages. ‘’I asked the Health, Labour and Social Protection Ministry and the Medicine and Medical Devices Agency to urgently revise the legal provisions, to coopt the sides interested and see the sale including in drug stores of vaccines, along with other medicines, providing of all conditions of their transportation and preservation,’’ Buza added.

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