2023-10-05 05:32:00
In Moscow and St. Petersburg, problems arose with the supply of vaccines against measles, rubella, mumps and mumps. The shortage concerns triple and single-component vaccines.
“In public medical institutions and private clinics in Moscow and St. Petersburg, problems have arisen with the triple vaccine against measles, rubella and mumps,” RBC reports. They added that supply difficulties are also observed with the single-component mumps vaccine. Representatives of the Moscow Department of Health stated that currently only live measles monovaccine is available for immunization of children against measles in children’s city clinics.
Deliveries of the combined measles, rubella and mumps vaccine are expected to resume in November. At the same time, the authorities of St. Petersburg claim that the measles vaccine is available in district clinics. Children’s clinics such as DocDeti, Mother and Child, Invitro, EMC, Medsi and the Scandinavia clinic do not have mumps vaccines available. Also, the Mother and Child and Scandinavia clinics do not have a single-component measles vaccine, the publication concluded.
At the beginning of October, in some regions of Russia, a shortage of vaccines against polio after Western companies stopped supplying due to logistics problems. The emerging shortage of vaccines is also associated with the extraordinary vaccination of children in Dagestan, Ingushetia and Karachay-Cherkessia at the beginning of 2023. In turn, the head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Mikhail Murashko, announced that flu vaccines have been supplied to all regions of Russia, reports RT.
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