Africa-Press – Mozambique. The Mozambican health system is facing a shortage of various medicines, especially the BCG vaccine, which is primarily used against tuberculosis to protect new-born babies.
In Maputo city and province, according to the independent daily “O País”, some babies have been waiting for their first dose of BCG vaccine for almost two months.
According to the paper’s source, the public hospitals “have not been vaccinating new-borns for about a month, due to a shortage of the vaccine. The José Macamo General Hospital, for example, has more than fifty unvaccinated children.”
“Families continue to visit various health centers in search of the vaccine for their children. There are cases of children born at the beginning of May who have not yet received BCG”, he said.
The source explained that in order to minimize the situation, the hospital authorities have been recommending users to resort to those health units where there are still some doses of the vaccine left. However, other reference hospital units in Maputo are also facing difficulties in supplying the vaccine.
According to the authorities, the country is awaiting the arrival of unspecified quantities of various medicines, including vaccines, to reinforce stocks in the national warehouses.
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