Three scientific societies and six sick societies appealed on Friday by seeking to include the area vaccine in the National Vaccination Program (PNV), expressing the lack of measures to protect the population from the disease.
In a statement, the entities state that “healthy time cannot wait for politics at the time of politics”, that “, that”For more than a year“The area’s vaccine is expected to be included in the PNV and that the vaccine has been scientifically proven and its protection is effective for more than 11 years.
“This vaccine has already been included in vaccine calendars from 13 European countries, unlike Portugal, which maintains this prevention as a privilege for those who can bear economic discrimination in a country with property rights to access health,” they say.
The Portuguese Association of Public Medicine and the Family is appealed; Portuguese Association of Endocrine, Diabetes and Metabolism. Portuguese Association of Lung Science; PSO Portugal. Portuguese League against rheumatic diseases; Respira – Portuguese Society of Portuguese Political Pulmonary and other chronic respiratory diseases; Portuguese League against leukemia; A group of activists in treatments and APIR – the Portuguese Association of Agents.
One of the young people is that patients “do not leave behind them”, at the time of “political instability”, the petitions offered that vaccination against the region has no compensation, which represents fees for the user opposite about 70 % of the social support index (IAS).
“Between July 2023 and June 2024, 62,985 adults were diagnosed and they need health care after an episode of the region, which requires a burden not only financial but also economically for national health service,” adding, “The annual estimated cost of the disease reaches 10.2 million euros.”
The bodies emphasize that the cost “includes direct costs of 7.2 million euros annually, 560,696 euros of them in hospitals (at 13.7 days per patient) and indirect costs, while absent from the work caused by the disease, which has an effect of more than 2.4 million euros annually.”
The area is a disease that can affect one in three people, causing severe pain and can lead to visual loss, movement difficulties and other serious effects on the quality of life.
Associations also regret because the government, parliament, and public health guidance “in silence”, despite the various requests for clarification, “while the Portuguese remains weak and unprofessional.
Signers Seam They repeat that the vaccine has been combined into PNV according to the reasonable technical recommendations.
