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Ordem dos Medicos (OM) considers it a mistake that Parliament has approved the integration of three new vaccines from the National Immunization Program (NIP) without listening to the Health Directorate, which is still studying the subject. .
Miguel Guimarães, an OM member, told Lusa that he "worries a lot" that MPs "interfere with good health practices", especially when There is an independent technical commission, "people with specific scientific knowledge in the country". field of vaccination "which studies whether the three vaccines should be part of the national immunization program.
The issue is integration into the PNV of meningitis B, rotavirus and HPV vaccines for boys that was approved Tuesday in the state budget specialty. "I think that the Assembly of the Republic has made a bad decision without hearing the general direction of health.It is a lack of respect for health professionals and the general direction of health itself. same, "said the medical staff.
"It's an error that needs to be corrected," he said, stressing that it was "vital that all vaccines against PNV have an analysis and a agreement based on scientific evidence ". The first proposal voted on Wednesday for the enlargement of the PNV was that of the PCP, approved by the supporters, PSD and BE, the votes against the PS and the abstention of the CDS-PP.
The EB also proposed to include meningitis B and rotavirus vaccines and to extend the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to men. The ENP proposal, however, aimed to extend the HPV vaccine to boys.
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