One shot of imported vaccine costs 1,200?

When I went to get rabies vaccine, I could only get ‘imported’ vaccine, and the price of this vaccine was too expensive. "Mr. Lin, who lives in Dadian Industrial Park, Yaohai District, Hefei City, told this reporter yesterday that he went to the Hefei City Center for Disease Control and Prevention to get a rabies vaccine, but was told that "domestic vaccines are out of stock, and only imported vaccines can be given." First. The needle cost more than 1,200 yuan.

Are vaccines charged excessively?

Mr. Lin is a retired worker. On the afternoon of August 8, he was bitten by a neighbor’s dog on both legs as soon as he went out. Later, his son sent him to the Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Get rabies vaccine. Mr. Lin said that after checking the wound, the doctor said: "There are no domestic vaccines now. You can only get imported vaccines. The whole process requires 7 injections, each injection costs 80.5 yuan." Mr. Lin did the math and found that the whole process only cost more than 500 yuan. Unexpectedly, when I checked out, I discovered that the first injection cost 1,208 yuan, so the entire injection cost nearly 1,700 yuan. "I only have a monthly retirement salary of 300 yuan, which is my income for nearly half a year!"

After receiving the reply, the reporter went to the outpatient clinic of the Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention. No vaccine price announcement was seen in the outpatient clinic. The reporter asked if there was rabies vaccine in China. A female doctor in the vaccine room said that the domestic vaccine has been out of stock for some time and no one knows when it will arrive. The doctor also said that although the domestic rabies vaccine is currently out of stock, the price has not increased, but the imported vaccine has increased by 8 yuan per injection.

Vaccines are in short supply

Wang Xiaoping, section chief of the Immunization Program Section of the Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters that since the beginning of this year, there has been a shortage of vaccines in the province and even the country, especially rabies vaccines. Shortage. “Some of the stations below had to close temporarily because they did not have vaccines.” When the reporter was interviewing, he happened to meet a staff member from the Hefei Yaohai District Center for Disease Control and Prevention to borrow four imported rabies vaccines. "Currently, the province is in urgent need of rabies vaccines. It would be great to have vaccines available. Domestic and imported vaccines are still available," the staff member said.

Regarding Mr. Lin’s question about “why the first injection charges 1,200 yuan,” a staff member at the Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention pharmacy explained: “This charge is very reasonable.” Because Mr. Lin’s injury was serious, the doctor gave him the injection that day. Rapid emergency rabies immune globulin. "Two million units of mad immune protein costs 200 yuan each, and a normal adult man usually needs 5 to 6 injections."

Wang Xiaoping's analysis shows that the main reason for the insufficient vaccine supply is that the national drug regulatory authorities have strengthened the management of high-risk drugs in recent years., leading to the extension of the cycle of some vaccine factories. Since last year, the national vaccine pre-market testing standard has been changed from sampling to "wholesale distribution", that is, each batch of vaccines must be tested before being launched on the market. As long as one bottle of vaccine fails to meet the standards, the entire batch of vaccines will be scrapped. Therefore, the cycle from the factory to the market for the vaccine is correspondingly extended and the cost is relatively increased.

Chief Wang explained that due to the shortage of domestically produced vaccines, the import volume of imported vaccines has increased accordingly. "Supply is less than demand, and prices will naturally rise. But our prices are not set casually, but are provided by the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention." Section Chief Wang said that although the price of domestically produced vaccines has not increased at present, he does not rule out that there will be in the future. Possibility of price increase.

Be careful not to let dogs bite you in summer

Section Chief Wang Xiaoping reminded that every summer, the number of patients bitten by dogs will increase significantly. On the one hand, because of the hot weather, dogs are more likely to be irritable and hurt people; at the same time, residents wear less clothes in summer, making it easy for dogs to bite them. “The weather has been hot recently and the rabies vaccine is extremely tight. Citizens must pay extra attention to dogs to prevent being bitten by dogs. At the same time, people who have dogs at home should also take good care of their dogs and do not let them roam unsupervised. ."