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Coalition of the willing: The Romanian Health Minister wants to establish an alliance of European countries against big pharma The Health Minister of Romania Alexandru Rafila is seeking to establish an alliance of European countries in an endeavour to be freed from the contracts for purchase of vaccines against Covid-19. The Health Minister has already initiated the process, with the assistance of the Foreign Minister Bogdan Lucian Aurescu, of identifying the countries wishing to participate in the alliance. The council which has been assembled for that purpose would be in a position to cancel the contracts signed in the course of the "pandemic" for the purchase of COVID-19 "vaccines". In the worst case, the minister hopes to be able to renegotiate them in the interest of Romania.
Bear in mind that to date around two million COVID-19 vaccines have expired, at an estimated cost of 6 million euros just for this particular batch. And minister Rafila says "we have formal obligation to purchase more batches."
We are being required to buy more vaccines than the number of inhabitants
“These formal obligations involved two elements, if you like, one of them pertaining to the position and the negotiation that took place at the level of the European Commission with the key vaccine manufacturers, where the formal quantities greatly exceeded in number the population of the European Union and each member state received a share" declared the minister.
“We tried through the Foreign Ministry to see if there are other countries in this situation this so that we might acquire a strong voice at the European level, to investigate the possibilities for renegotiating these contracts to avoid wasting public money", declared the Health Minister. 240 million expired vaccines
"It is not clear who we could negotiate with, if Romania has the opportunity to. Contracts for the purchase of doses are signed by the European Commission with the manufacturers BioNTtech/Pfizer etc. and Romania in turn has signed contracts for undertaking obligations towards the Commission."
But it is also certain than most European countries are indeed in this situation. The challenge for minister Rafila is to find countries willing to take a position on a council convened by Romania.
In Europe more than 240 million doses have expired since the commencement of the vaccination campaign.
According to Euractiv, Lithuania - with a population of less than 3 million - and Poland have trashed hundreds of thousands of expired vaccines.
Michał Kuczmierowski, president of the governmental organization for strategic supplies declared at the end of last year that among Polish citizens the interest in vaccination was diminishing by 40% each week.
The position of Germany, the Czech Republic and France is no better.
Le Monde warns of potential environmental disaster
The French Le Monde newspaper also warns of yet another ominous aspect of this waste of resources and public money.
In October 2021 Nigeria accepted various bequests of a total 2.6 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, including 500,000 from France with a remaining shelf life of only four to seven weeks.
“We had no other option but to take them because there were no other vaccines", said Faisal Shaibu, director of the National Development Service of Nigeria.
When the vaccines arrived the National Pharmaceutical Organization immediately conducted a series of tests "to prove that these vaccines were of adequate quality" its director Mojisola Christianah Adeyeye declared. The batches were released for distribution between 19 and 21 days later and subsequently dispatched all over the country.
According to the document in the possession of Le Monde, only 1.53 million doses could be used within the prescribed deadline. The remainder, more than a million doses, were destroyed on 22nd December 2021, consigned to an open landfill site in Gosa, around 10 kilometres from the centre of Abuja.
“Simply burying the doses there is the danger of polluting the ground and the water table" was the view conveyed to Le Monde by Laurent Wilmouth, director of Cyclamed, an organization responsible for disposal of expired Covid-19 vaccines.
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Date of publication 17.04.22
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