[News] Gheorghiță responds to Voiculescu's accusations: We do not throw doses. We can't throw away just because people aren't on the lists

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The coordinator of the national vaccination campaign against Covid-19, doctor Valeriu Gheorghiță, assured, at Digi24, that the vaccine doses are not discarded. He explained that there are almost daily situations in which they are not completely consumed, and can be used for immunization even in the next few days. At the same time, the doctor said why young people who do not have chronic diseases are vaccinated in the second stage of the strategy , a situation that the Minister of Health, Vlad Voiculescu, categorized as a state of affairs that he could not change when taking office.

"It is a discussion that I debated a lot, before developing the strategy, with my colleagues. The strategy was developed on the basis of international recommendations from the WHO, the European Center for Disease Control and the US Centers for Disease Control. It is a model adopted in all countries.

From the point of view of public health, it is equally important to vaccinate and protect young, active people, who are involved in maintaining the functioning of critical infrastructure, the economy, because, in addition to this role they have in society, they are the which spread the contact virus by the fact that they are generally employed and work in large urban agglomerations, where the incidence of Covid-19 disease is far higher than in rural areas.

From this point of view, starting from this situation and epidemiological reality, starting from a concept of public health, it is important to protect staff, people at risk - namely the elderly and people with chronic diseases - from the individual risk of developing a severe form. .

At the same time it is important to protect those who are active, those who can and really spread the virus, because they return home, in the family, where they have a grandfather, parents, loved ones with chronic diseases or people vulnerable.

Ideally, I think there should be no prioritization, given that we had a number of doses available to cover everything we needed.

The fact that we started from a weighted distribution, namely a percentage of 75% of the doses and of the places in the vaccination centers allocated for people at risk, respectively 25% of people serving essential activities, is a very fair percentage ", said, on Friday evening, Valeriu Gheorghiță, at Digi24.