| | |  Health & Beauty | October 2009 
Calderón to Ensure H1N1 Vaccinations
 Rocío Zayas - The News
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October 21, 2009
| | Last month, the World Health Organization hailed Mexican President Felipe Calderón's (L) bravery in providing timely information on the presence of A/H1N1 flu in his country and sharing this information with the world. (Presidencia de la República) | |
President Calderón will meet Thursday with representatives from Sanofi, the lab in charge of making the H1N1 flu vaccine in Mexico, announced Health Secretary José Angel Córdova Villalobos.
He said that the meeting is to ensure the supply of 30 million H1N1 vaccine doses that the pharmaceutical lab has committed to.
"On Thursday we are meeting with representatives of one of the companies that is selling us the vaccine; they will meet with the president. We'll have the chance to speak directly with the representatives and hopefully we will be able to guarantee the supply of vaccinations," said Córdova.
The meeting will take place in the Los Pinos presidential residence, Córdova announced, after he attended the presentation of the 2008 Annual Report of Activities from the Medical Arbitration Commission (Conamed).
He said the purpose of the meeting is to guarantee the dates that Sanofi will have vaccinations ready for the government, and to insist that they have a supply available by the end of October or beginning of November.
Córdova said that if they don't reach an agreement about an advance supply of vaccinations, the government will not receive vaccinations until the second half of December. The first batch would be 8 million vaccinations in late December and then another 7 million doses in both February and March.
Córdova said he trusts that Mexico can produce its own vaccinations, because the federal government is supporting the Monterrey Institute of Technology with the project.
"We will be very pleased if the Monterrey Institute of Technology produces the vaccine," he said. "The University is working on genetic engineering to produce the vaccine."
Córdova said that to date, there have been 271 deaths from the H1N1 flu virus in the country. |
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