National Congress approves anticovid vacancies without intermediaries

Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

El Honduran Parliament approve this Saturday a file to accelerate the direct purchase of vacancies against coronavirus EARS-CoV-2 through the Health Secretariat y el Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS).

The approval of the Ley de Vacuna Gratuita is being produced with the exception of two debates in a virtual session of the National Congress and in the middle of the ascending curve of contagions, which surpasses 164,000, while the death toll rose to 4,000, according to the state’s last report Riesgos National Management System (Sinager).

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The law is approved by the deputies authorized by the Secretariat of Health to request the vacancies against covid-19 through the rotator fund of vacancies of the Panamericana de la Salud (OPS), mechanisms and establishments and “direct form, sin intermediaries and without prejudice to the provisions established in the Law of Contraction of the State “, indicates the power Legislative.

The sanitary entity also has the authority to buy directly “all the logistics, dispensary and emergency services required for the application of vacancy”, added.

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“In many cases, priority should be given to the immediate availability of the vacancy in the meanwhile possible time and its availability in sufficient time for all the population and incorporation in the National Evacuation of Workers in the Ampliado de Immunisaciones program.”

It also authorizes the IHSS to handle the acquisition of vacancies against the coronavirus, in order to guarantee the inoculation to all its affiliates.

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All public institutions that provide vacancies against the covid deben guarantee that “the first doses will be for the attention of health workers, be private or public, in compliance with the establishment of vacancy lines” emission Congratulations to the Parliament. The Secretariat of Health and the IHSS have also been authorized to sign a co-operation agreement that allows for “increased coverage and coverage” for the care of insured families and other vulnerable groups.

The acquisition of the vacancies will be carried out in a “transparent form”, and the process will be accompanied and supervised by the Superior Tribunal de Cuentas (TSC).

All pharmaceutical or legal entities that are provided with IHSS vouchers by the Health Secretariat must have a Emergency Use Authorization issued by the Sanitary Regulatory Agency (ARSA) to ensure evidence-based sanitary regulation.

Various sectors have come forward demanding the legalization of the first vacancies in the country, while the National Autonomous University of Honduras (Unah) has recommended the purchase of the Russian Sputnik V.

The Russian vaccine, which has been approved for emergence for 25 months in the world, in addition to minimum secondary effects, requires a holiday cadence between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius, which is in agreement with the holiday cadence that manages the sanitary system of the Central American nation.

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