Illegal possession and trafficking vaccines from a private person in collaboration with a private child pharmacy in Thessaloniki her Service revealed National Transparency Authority.

According to the EAD announcement, inspectors of the Regional Service of the National Transparency Authority, following an anonymous complaint, carried out an inspection at a private children’s clinic in Central Macedonia during the period June 2020 – May 2022, with the aim of checking the legality of the trafficking practices, management and administration pediatric vaccines.

From the control that was carried out, it was found in the doctor’s office of the children 60 packs childhood vaccines, which he had prescribed up to 8 months earlier, from which the knowledge tapes had been removed, in violation of article 3, par. 2b of the No. GY 24a/22-2-2012 YA (Government Gazette B’ 545/2012). In this way, the pediatrician allegedly, according to the announcement, “altered the tracking of the batches of vaccines used and the authenticity tape affixed to the prescriptions did not correspond to the vaccine used, a fact critical to public health e.g. . . in case of side effects or recall of batches’.

As pointed out by the newspaper, “the pediatrician took actions other than professional competition by keeping in his/her practice an illegal stock of children’s vaccines for the purpose of serving his/her clients, in violation of par. 2, of article 21, of Law 3418/2005 (Medical Code of Ethics), while during the investigation that followed, the prescribing and execution profile of the child’s prescriptions during the period August 2019 – June 2020 was analyzed and it was found that vaccine prescriptions were executed almost universally . only pharmacy”.

According to the Service of the National Transparency Authority “from the testimonies of parents of children as well as other involved parties, as well as the comparison of vaccination dates with the analysis of prescription execution time, it was found that there was an unjustified delay in the execution of the specific prescriptions by the private pharmacy, in violation of article 4, par. 4 of PD 121/2008”. After the on-site inspection by the EAD Inspectors, the announcement states, “in the children’s practice, both the selective execution of prescriptions at the specific pharmacy, as well as the unjustified delay in the execution of prescriptions by the pharmacy, ceased”, while it is noted that ” during the audit it was also established that in the past in 2017, a second directed prescription of vaccines by the pediatrician to another pharmacy, however, stopped its operation at the beginning of 2018″.

The audit report of the EAD was forwarded to the Medical Association of Thessaloniki and the Pharmaceutical Association of Thessaloniki in order to carry out the disciplinary control of the pharmacist’s children, respectively, as well as to the EOF and the EOPYY in order to consider the possibility of further actions within the framework of the current provisions.

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