The flow of 252600 unqualified DPT vaccines (batch No. 201605014-01) produced by Changchun Changsheng company into Shandong Province has been fully identified, and no abnormal reaction of suspected vaccination has been found among children involved, the official website of Shandong CDC said in the early morning of Sunday. So which areas does Shandong vaccine mainly flow to?
These vaccines, accounting for 3.96% of the annual use of the province, flow to 8 cities including Jinan, Zibo, Yantai, Jining, Tai'an, Weihai, Rizhao, Laiwu, etc. This batch of vaccines has been inoculated 247359, with 5241 lost and sealed, involving 215184 children. The vaccination information of children has been registered in the vaccination unit.
Shandong to find out the flow of DPT vaccine in Changchun Changsheng company
On July 22, the reporter learned from the CDC of Shandong Province that 252600 unqualified DPT vaccines (batch No.: 201605014-01) produced by Changchun Changsheng company flowing into Shandong Province had been identified, and no abnormal reaction of suspected vaccination was found to be increased in children involved.
The provincial Party committee and the provincial government immediately ordered the provincial health and Family Planning Commission and the provincial centers for Disease Control and prevention to conduct serious, serious, detailed and one-step investigation on the procurement and use of unqualified vaccines in response to the public's concern about the recent incident of Changchun Changsheng company's unqualified DPT vaccine flowing into Shandong. The provincial Party committee and the provincial government require that children who have been vaccinated with the unqualified DPT vaccine should be replanted one by one with a highly responsible attitude and firmly safeguard the life safety of the people.
The head of Shandong CDC introduced to the reporter that as early as in November 2017, after the former State Food and Drug Administration announced that Changchun Changsheng company's titer of unqualified DPT vaccine, Shandong Province immediately took action to stop the vaccination at the first time, and within three days found out the flow direction, inventory, children and vaccination situation of relevant batches of vaccines, sealed the batch of unused vaccines, and opened Carry out risk assessment. Changchun Changsheng company sold 252600 unqualified DPT vaccines to Shandong Province, accounting for 3.96% of the annual use of the whole province, which flowed to 8 cities including Jinan, Zibo, Yantai, Jining, Tai'an, Weihai, Rizhao, Laiwu, etc. This batch of vaccines has been inoculated 247359, with 5241 lost and sealed, involving 215184 children. The vaccination information of children has been registered in the vaccination unit.
In order to ensure that the children who have been inoculated with unqualified DPT vaccine are free from disease, Shandong Province uses qualified DPT vaccine to carry out routine vaccination of subsequent doses of DPT vaccine in accordance with the national immunization procedures. Since then, up to now, 208579 (96.93% of the total) of 215184 children vaccinated with unqualified DPT vaccine in the province have used the qualified DPT vaccine produced by other enterprises to complete the follow-up routine vaccination of corresponding doses. Other 6605 children will be vaccinated in succession according to the requirements of vaccination interval.
The reporter learned that on November 3, 2017, the former spokesman of the State Food and Drug Administration introduced that the titer index of the batch of DPT vaccine was unqualified, which may affect the immune protection effect, but has no impact on human safety. Although the monitoring shows that the incidence of suspected abnormal vaccination reactions among children vaccinated with this batch of vaccine in Shandong Province is increased, the provincial health and Family Planning Commission still requires disease control agencies and vaccination units at all levels to pay close attention to timely identify problems and properly handle them, so as to ensure that every child vaccinated with unqualified DPT vaccine can receive supplementary vaccination. According to the requirements of the national supplementary seed program and vaccination principles, most of the children will be given follow-up supplementary seed in the near future, and other children will be given supplementary seed after the vaccination interval expires.
The head of Shandong CDC also introduced that after verification, on July 15, 2018, the rabies vaccine illegally produced by Changchun Changsheng company, which was notified by the State Drug Administration, did not flow into Shandong Province.
The person in charge of the provincial health and Family Planning Commission said that the disease control institutions at all levels in the province will learn lessons and draw lessons from each other in strict accordance with the requirements of the provincial Party committee and the provincial government, so as to comprehensively complete the follow-up work.