Import of 10 million doses of vaccine for students – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
According to the Mehr news agency, quoting the public relations of the Red Crescent Society; Karim Hemmati, in a live TV interview on the One Sima network, said: “The highest officials of the system emphasized that in order to reduce the suffering of the people and prevent the spread of the corona, vaccines should be imported.” To date, more than 30 million doses of vaccine have been imported into the country by the Red Crescent Society alone, and the President and his First Vice President have made significant efforts in this direction.
He added: “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Central Bank have also provided good assistance, and the Red Crescent Medical Procurement Organization has been successful in this area.” A total of 90 million doses of vaccine will be imported by November.
The head of the Red Crescent Society noted: “Because we are on the verge of reopening schools in the new school year, the president emphasized that vaccination of students should begin and accordingly, 10 million doses of vaccine for 12 to 18 year olds will be imported. Students should also be safe against Corona.
Hemmati continued: All vaccines that enter the country and vaccines that are produced in the country, are first approved by the Ministry of Health and then injected. The Red Crescent also pays special attention to this issue and has introduced vaccines that have been approved by the World Health Organization, and then the Ministry of Health has approved these vaccines, and their effectiveness has been proven on a large scale.
He added: “More than 500 million doses of this vaccine have been injected in China, and this vaccination has caused death rates in China and Mir Drastically reduced. The Red Crescent imports vaccines from the Beijing site, and it is this Beijing site that has received worldwide approval. Vaccines are purchased at normal world prices and there are no intermediaries and are purchased from the factory.
The head of the Red Crescent Society stated: “Efforts are being made to import 180 million doses of vaccine into the country so that the society is completely safe against this disease.” Some of these vaccines are prescription booster And the injection of this vaccine causes more immunity in people. The promise of the Minister of Health will be fulfilled with this procedure and 1400 of the whole country will be vaccinated by February.
Referring to the increase in the speed of vaccination in the country, Hemmati said: “Today, the Red Crescent has independently set up 15 vaccine injection centers and 149 centers are cooperating.” Today, the Red Crescent is ready to increase the number of vaccine injection centers to 500.
He added: “After the inauguration of the 13th government, the president had telephone conversations with the leaders of China and Russia, and this caused the process of importing the vaccine to accelerate.” High-level follow-ups were one of the main components that accelerated the import of vaccines in recent days.
In the end, the head of the Red Crescent Society said: the provincial centers have been notified to be ready to set up their own vaccine injection centers at the request of the Minister of Health from the Red Crescent Society, and coordination should be made by medical universities to anywhere in the country. Vaccination centers needed to be set up. Red Crescent vaccine injection centers are equipped and have a very convenient space and there is no need to spend money to set them up. For example, today in the center of Tehranpars, the Red Crescent, between 1,200 and 1,500 doses of vaccine are injected daily, which can continue this process, removing a heavy burden from the Ministry of Health.
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