Health Minister Alexandru Rafila says the purchase of the hexavalent vaccine for children has been delayed “for procedural reasons”, stressing that the vaccine will likely be available next month, News.ro reports.

“The procurement was delayed for some procedural reasons. The procurement procedure was started on time, but you know how it is with public procurement, with public procurement it is difficult. This problem is being solved, no problem. There is the availability of this vaccine and I think it will end in September “, said Alexandrou Rafila, answering a question on Wednesday night on Antena 3.

Recently, in some countries, parents are no longer able to vaccinate their children with vaccines from the national scheme because family doctors did not have enough. Some family doctors sounded the alarm, saying that they no longer received doses of this serum.

Family doctors say that the missing vaccines, such as hexavalent, prevenar, tetraxime, are not available in sufficient quantities in all countries, reports Europa Liberă.

The National Vaccination Calendar (National Vaccination Calendar) includes vaccines administered to a child from the first 24 hours of life up to 14 years of age.

The hexavalent vaccine (DTPa-IPI-Hib-Hep. B) – the first dose – is given to babies at the age of two months. The vaccine provides protection against diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), pertussis (P), polio (IPV – inactivated polio vaccine), Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and hepatitis B (HepB).