The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. Mr. Lin, who lives in the Da Dian Industrial Park in Yaohai District, Hefei, reacted to this reporter yesterday that he went to the Hefei Preventive Disease Control Center to get rabies vaccine, but was told that “domestic vaccines are out of stock and only imported vaccines can be given”, and the first shot cost more than 1200 yuan. Vaccine charges? Mr. Lin, a retired worker, was bitten by his neighbor’s dog on the afternoon of August 8, and his son later sent him to the Hefei CDC for a rabies vaccine. Mr. Lin said that the doctor looked at the wound and said, “Now there is no domestic vaccine, you can only play imported vaccine, the whole need to play 7 shots, 80.5 yuan per shot.” Mr. Lin calculated that the whole process is only 500 yuan, who knows when the checkout found that the first injection cost 1,208 yuan, so the whole process will cost nearly 1,700 yuan. “I only have a monthly retirement salary of 300 yuan, this is my income of nearly half a year!” After receiving the response, the reporter went to the outpatient clinic of the Hefei CDC, which did not see the vaccine price announcement. The reporter asked if the rabies vaccine was available domestically, and a female doctor in the vaccine room said that the domestic vaccine had been off the market for some time and no one knew when it would arrive. The doctor also said that although the domestic rabies vaccine is currently out of stock, the price has not risen, but the imported vaccine has risen by 8 yuan per injection. Vaccines are in short supply Hefei CDC Immunization Program Section Chief Wang Xiaoping told reporters that since the beginning of this year, the province and even the country is experiencing a tight vaccine situation, with rabies vaccine especially in short supply. “There are stations down there that can’t help but close temporarily because there is no vaccine.” When the reporter interviewed, he happened to bump into a staff member from the Yaohai District CDC in Hefei City to borrow four copies of imported rabies vaccine. “The province is currently in a rabies vaccine emergency, can have the vaccine to play is very good, but also divided into what domestic, imported.” The staff member said. For Mr. Lin “why the first injection charge 1200 yuan” question, the Hefei CDC pharmacy a staff interpretation said: “This charge is very reasonable.” Because Mr. Lin’s injuries are relatively serious, the doctor gave him an emergency injection of rabies immune globulin that day. “Two million units of rabies immune protein is 200 yuan each, and a normal adult man usually needs five to six injections.” Wang Xiaoping’s analysis suggests that the main reason for the lack of vaccine supply is that national drug supervision and management authorities have strengthened the management of high-risk drugs in recent years, leading to an extension of the cycle of some vaccine plants. Since last year, the national pre-market testing standard for vaccines has been changed from sampling to “wholesale distribution,” meaning that each batch of vaccines must be tested before it goes to market. As long as a bottle of vaccine fails, the batch of vaccine will be scrapped. As a result, the cycle of vaccines from the factory to the market has been extended accordingly, and the cost has increased relatively.
Be careful not to let the dog bite in summer Section Chief Wang Xiaoping reminded that every summer, the number of patients with dog bites will increase in large numbers. On the one hand, because of the hot weather, dogs are more likely to be irritable and prone to injury; at the same time, residents wear less in the summer, so that the dog a bite. “The recent hot weather, rabies vaccine and unusually nervous, the public must pay extra attention to dog prevention, to prevent dog bites; at the same time, people who have dogs at home also have to control their dogs, do not let the dog in the unmanaged free-range state.”
