The ministry proposed the vaccines in health plans on the same day they were incorporated into SUS

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The Department of Health proposed that vaccines against Covid be included in the coverage of health plans on the same day that they were incorporated into the SUS.

It was a matter of hours.

The Ministry of Health has integrated Pfizer and AstraZeneca / Fucruz vaccines into SUS last Wednesday (30). These are the only vaccines against Covid already registered with Anvisa, rather than authorized for emergency use, as is the case with Coronavac and Janssen vaccines.

The decision, published in the Official Gazette, complied with the recommendation of the National Committee for the Integration of Technologies in SUS (Conitec). The press office of the ministry said Discount That the action would facilitate potential future purchases of these vaccines, if necessary.

Excellent. before 11 am on the same day – as indicated in the letter sent to Discount By the ministry itself – the Minister of Science and Technology, Helio Angoti Neto, sent a letter to the ANS, which regulates health plans.

Angoti Neto wrote in the office: “[c]Given the integration of these technologies into the Unified Health System (SUS), I request evaluation by the ANS, to include ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Fiocruz/AstraZeneca) and BNT162b2 (Pfizer) vaccines in the List of Actions and Events in Health”.

in another meaning: The incorporation of vaccines into the SUS has been used as an argument for recommending that they also be included in health plans coverage.

Conitec’s administrative process that recommended integrating vaccines into the SUS, attention, had been requested by the ministry itself.

Yesterday (7), in a note sent to DiscountThe American News Agency (ANS) highlighted the importance of taking into account the vaccination against Covid “as a collective action, and not segmented into specific groups (in this case, health plan beneficiaries).”

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Queiroga was once “100% SUS” in public, but later you changed your mind.

It is assumed that the Ministry of Health has not yet communicated how the Minister intends to reconcile the proposal for vaccinations in health plans with the decree signed by him that includes vaccinations in the SUS.

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