The suspected expired vaccine
is not just a polio vaccine
On the afternoon of January 10, many parents came to inquire and register in the Licheng Town Defense Security Center in Jinhu County. The picture is provided by the respondent
After the expiration of polio vaccine in Jinhu County, Jiangsu Province was exposed, causing local parents to conduct self-inspection. At 7 pm on January 12, a reporter from China Newsweek saw at the Licheng Defense Security Institute in the county that although it was Saturday night, there were still staff responsible for reception. Several parents reported to reporters that according to the vaccination books at home and the records printed at the county CDC, the suspected expired vaccine is not just a polio vaccine, but also involves more than 145 children announced by the official, and the number of people is still increasing.
htmlOn January 7, after a child in Jinhu County was exposed to expired polio vaccine, the news was frequently forwarded in the local WeChat group. At first, Tian Hua (pseudonym) didn't care. It was not until three days later that when he looked through his two-year-old daughter's vaccination book, he found that among the four vaccines that the child received, the leprosy vaccine received in 2017 only wrote the time and the doctor's signature, and the vaccination site, vaccine model, manufacturer, etc. were all blank. The production batch number can be found for the other three needles and has not expired.In order to find out whether the leprosy vaccine without batch number expired, Tian Hua went to the Licheng Defense Security Institute, the County Health and Family Planning Commission, and the County Center for Disease Control and Prevention for inquiries many times, and the answers he received were "Register first, there will be a notice." On the evening of January 10, at the Licheng Defense Security Institute, he saw 8 staff members on the scene doing statistics. Statistics can be divided into two situations. One is confirmed to expire based on the information on the vaccination book, and the other is that the batch number cannot be found. Each statistical table can record information of 17 people. According to Tian Hua's recollection, a form was full in less than 10 minutes, and he never stopped filling out the form within 5 hours of stay.
htmlOn January 12, a staff member of the Jinhu County Health and Family Planning Commission explained to China Newsweek, "It's not that the batch number cannot be found, but that the batch number (registration) before 2017 is wrong." According to him, before 2017, the batch number data was relatively chaotic, and they were temporarily seconded from other industries and did not know the previous work of the Health and Family Planning Commission.Chen Hua, director of Jinhu County Health and Family Planning Commission, said in an interview with the media: In order to save trouble, the batch numbers in the computer of the registration office were entered in advance... Therefore, it is easy to cause the computer batch numbers and manual batch numbers to be inconsistent. But it is certain that the batch number on the manual registered vaccination book is accurate.
However, according to the records in the vaccination book provided by a parent to China Newsweek, the child received the BCG vaccine at Jinhu County People's Hospital on June 19, 2018. The vaccine batch number is 201603a027, but the query batch number shows that the vaccine is valid until March 13, 2018.
picture provided by the interviewee
"If the vaccination book and the computer record are inconsistent, the vaccination book will still be the main one, but manual filling errors are not ruled out." Wen Xin (pseudonym), a staff member of a department of the Jinhu County Health and Family Planning Commission, told China Newsweek that a very important reason why Licheng Town Health Center has a chaotic management situation is that it is insufficient staff and has been in a high-load working state for a long time. "According to regulations, a vaccination site does not exceed 200 people per day, but Jinhu County has a dense urban population. 80% to 90% of the county's vaccination tasks are all concentrated in Licheng Town Health Center. Five or six vaccination staff have to serve more than 400 people a day, and they also have to do other tasks, such as vaccine management."
According to Shangguan News, Gao Wenyu, deputy director of the Medical Reform Office of Jinhu County Health and Family Planning Commission, also explained, "At present, the population served by Licheng Health Center is more than 103,000, equivalent to one-third of the total population of the county, while there are only 12 public health personnel, of which 3 are also 3. It is a qualified rural doctor who borrowed. On December 18, 2018, the number of vaccinations reached 500 people. So it is impossible for every person who vaccinated, they will register information once. It is very likely that ten people will register information once. Ten people will register information once. The batch used in the previous batch is changed below. He himself can't remember which person started to change it.
According to the Paper, Jinhu County Mayor Xu Yaping said on the morning of January 12, "For the newly discovered suspected expired vaccine incident, the expert group in the province we invited has arrived (Jinhu).The expert group has started working, from the afternoon of yesterday (11th) to 5 a.m. today. The expert group has begun to receive parents on site and identify these newly discovered children one by one. "The expert group will conduct a comprehensive identification of the certificates and cards reported by local parents, such as inconsistent batches, and inconsistent varieties.
Wenxin also revealed to China News Weekly that in 2018, the county Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted multiple inspections on the vaccine update of the vaccination unit, and repeatedly reported that the Licheng Town Health Center had problems such as untimely vaccine updates, vaccination batch numbers, and inconsistent with the unit and the actual situation, and ordered rectification.
