The vaccine campaign for the influenza Started on October 1, but with good morning the problems were not missing pharmacies.
There were a few citizens who were surprised in pharmacies, as their doctor was not executed, and several vaccines for the flu was not displayed in the system and the pharmacists provided conflicting information.
According to an official briefing by the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association (PFS) to the pharmaceutical associations throughout the country, Disruption was caused not by lack of vaccines, but by technical and administrative delays In the process of posting the new preparations on the HIDA online platform.
So Greece this year was the first time in the market at the same time on the market at the same time both quadruple and trivial vaccines.
Anticiptic Vaccination: What happened this year
Last year, quadruple anti -influenza vaccines (eg Vaxigrip, Fluarix), while This year almost all the vaccines were trivial, except for GSK Fluarix.
This meant that last year’s EOF codes were no longer in force for most vaccines, As a result, the prescriptions written before October 4th could not be executed in pharmacies unless they concern Fluarix.
HIDA, at the request of the PFS, eventually uploaded the new three -year -old vaccines on the platform on October 4. As PFS explains to its members, the delay was not due to HIDA, but In waiting for the release of the new “positive listthat is, the list with their medicines and prices covered by the State.
The list included not only anti -influenza vaccines but also other medicines, such as Xarelto, whose price was significantly reduced. To avoid financial damage to pharmacies, the PFS demanded a short day to complete the returns of old stocks.
But the problems, always with pharmacists, did not stay there:
After posting of vaccines on the platform, technical malfunctions occurred, Mostly with the QR codes of new vaccines and the connection of the pharmaceutical programs to the vaccine register.
The difficulties, according to the PFS, were “resolved immediately”, and there is no problem at the moment.
The three categories of vaccines in force this year
For the first time in the country, there are three separate vaccination categories in the prescription system, as at least in a letter on October 7, the National Vaccination Committee was requested.
And in particular, the following:
Tripotics (Vaxigrip, Influvac, Flucelvac)
T fourpm (Fluarix)
Enhanced (Fluad, Efluelda) – for older people and vulnerable groups
Doctors can now choose between vaccines in the same category, depending on the patient.
Fluarix-Tetra has been removed from prescription for children, as announced by PFS.
The Association calls on its members to be informed only by institutional channels and to avoid the dispersion of “inaccurate information” that confuses the public and stresses that it will “intervene where needed to ensure the unity, reliability and prestige of the industry”.
Source: iatropedia.gr