Health Minister Alexandru Rafila told Profit News TV about the doses of the COVID-19 vaccine purchased by Romania during the pandemic that he managed to save about 15 million doses and a global saving of about 300 million euros, which is extremely important. There are hundreds of millions of euros that can be lost, he also said, explaining that everything depends on negotiations with the European Commission and the manufacturer, News.ro reports.

Regarding the vaccines purchased by the Romanian state, the minister said that we should have received 19 million doses of vaccine from Pfizer alone this year and 19 million next year, as this was the commitment of the previous government, which is almost 39 million doses, in two years

“At the beginning of the year, in January, we managed to sell 7.5 million doses to other countries, more precisely 6.5 million from Pfizer and 1 million doses from Moderna, we sold them in Germany and Hungary, the most in Germany. There are 11.2 million doses left for this year, and 19 million doses for the next year,” the minister said.

Rafila said that he had held several talks with the manufacturer and officials from Brussels, as well as with other health ministers from other countries, and the discussion was that we could reduce the number of doses delivered this year to 3 million compared to with 11.2 million, and next year we will see, after the next negotiations.

“We made a saving of about 15 million 9 doses, no), a global economy of about 300 million euros, which I think is extremely important,” Alexandru Rafila also said, clarifying that, in addition, we have 6 million euros , which deposits have expired or are due to expire before the end of the year.

“We will pay the most by affecting public confidence in vaccination in general and clearly destroying some vaccines and spending public funds on opaque contracts. The lack of transparency in the spending of public funds creates mistrust and leads to refusal of vaccination,” the minister wanted to clarify.

When asked how much the Romanian state loses from these vaccines, Rafila replied: “There are hundreds of millions of euros that can be lost, it largely depends on how big these losses will be if the Commission’s negotiations with the manufacturers reach a result,” the minister added, that we can get the number of doses in 10 years as a type of flu vaccine, with the formula adapted every year, and that should be the solution.