Lack of vaccines will be solved not sooner than in April

According to daily Hospodárske noviny from 26/01/2012 Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik plans to solve the lack of vaccines in outpatient clinics by their central purchasing. Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (General Health Insurance Company) should allegedly directly purchase the vaccines and deliver them to the outpatient clinics. Problem is, that such an organization of the purchasing of vaccines should be functional not sooner than in April, after the preliminary parliamentary elections in March. Doctors, however, warn that influenza vaccination already fell by two thirds and the strongest flu season will come in February.