The Federal Government has extended the expiration date on some vaccines from April 30 to May 15-30, enabling Jocotepec to order new vaccines within their new expiration dates.
Community Hospital of Jocotepec where vaccinations are delivered.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía (Jocotepec).-Medical authorities at the Community Hospital of Jocotepec assured the community that expired vaccines against Covid-19 will not be administered. The recent Federal extension of expiration dates for some classes of Covid-19 vaccines. makes this possible.
It was reported in several media outlets that over 59 million doses of the AstraZeneca biologic had an expiration date of April 30th. The Ministry of Health of Jalisco (SSJ) said that the Federal Government granted an «extension of useful life» for these doses, so they will be applied between May 15th and May 30th, as stated in the COFEPRIS-CAS-DEAPE-5010-2022 official communication.
The Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) and the National Center for the Health of Children and Adolescents (CENSIA) stated these vaccines should not go to waste, so Jocotepec medical authorities will be able to use doses with the extended dates.
The authorities of the Jocotepec Community Hospital said that no expired vaccines will be administered, thanks to the extension of shelf life, and that so far this has not been a problem in the municipality.
The doctor said that only the necessary number of doses have been requested -about 1,500 doses for each vaccination day, in contrast to the 10,000 that were requested months ago. This will insure that no valid vaccine doses go to waste
Translated by Mary Woods
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