Official response: Some vaccination certificates in Guangyuan, Sichuan Province were altered and destroyed: true.
BEIJING, August 26 (Xinhua) Recently, people in Qingxi Town, Qingchuan County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province reported that the Qingxi Town Central Health Center had revised some of the "vaccination record books" and questioned the vaccine batch number, which caused controversy. In the early morning of the 26th, the official Weibo of Qingchuan County Health and Wellness Bureau issued a briefing, saying that after preliminary investigation, the procurement channel of vaccines in Qingxi Town was legal, and the problem of vaccination with expired vaccines had not been found. It is true that Qingxi Health Center altered, destroyed and replaced the vaccination certificate information.
According to the circular, on August 24th, the county party committee and the county government set up the on-site disposal headquarters for the petition incident of "vaccination record change" in Qingxi Town, and the Guangyuan Municipal Health and Wellness Commission, the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Municipal Market Supervision Bureau and other departments sent professionals to form a municipal independent professional investigation expert group to conduct a thorough and serious investigation on the problems reflected by the masses, such as "Qingxi Town Health Center in Qingchuan County revised some vaccination record books".
According to the circular, the procurement channels for vaccines are legal, and the qualification procedures for the issuance of biological products are complete, and the problem of vaccination with expired vaccines has not been found. Verified by the professional investigation team of the city, in 2015, the Youth Town Central Health Center purchased 12 times and 9 batches of 375 oral attenuated rotavirus live vaccines. The procurement channels of vaccines were legal, and the qualification procedures such as batch issuance of biological products were collected completely. In 2015, a total of 375 oral attenuated rotavirus live vaccines in 9 batches were purchased and put into storage for 12 times, and a total of 352 doses were inoculated. According to the principle of first-in-first-out vaccine management and the statistics of vaccination date, no expired vaccine has been found.
The circular pointed out that it is true that Qingxi Health Center altered, destroyed and replaced the vaccination certificate information. On February 12, 2019, the former County Health and Family Planning Bureau formulated and issued the Notice of Qingchuan County Health and Family Planning Bureau on Carrying out Comprehensive Inspection of Inoculation Units (Qing Wei Ji Fa [2019] No.23) according to the requirements of the Notice on Carrying out Comprehensive Investigation of Inoculation Units issued by the Provincial Health and Health Committee on January 25, and arranged the full coverage inspection of inoculation units in the county; On March 6, 2019, the former County Health and Family Planning Bureau issued the Notice on Further Strengthening Vaccination Work (Qing Wei Ji Fa [2019] No.27). On the basis of full coverage supervision and inspection, the Qingchuan County Health and Wellness Bureau issued the Notice on Full Coverage Supervision of Immunization Planning in 2019 on April 19, 2019 (Qing Wei Fa [2019] No.19 Qingxi Town Center Health Center was informed by the County Health Bureau due to inconsistent vaccination information, and asked to rectify the existing problems within a time limit. Qingxi Town Center Health Center also arranged vaccination work in this town according to the requirements of the competent authorities, and made rectification according to the requirements of provinces, cities and counties.
The survey found that in the vaccination work in 2015, the vaccination staff did not strictly implement the vaccination work norms and the relevant system of "three checks and seven pairs", and there were problems such as untimely vaccination registration, missing and wrong registration, incomplete registration information, inaccurate vaccine batch number registration and information, and inconsistent contents of vaccination registration book, vaccination card, vaccination certificate and vaccination information system, which exposed the lack of responsibility and carelessness of vaccination staff. In the process of rectification, the hospital failed to understand the requirements of superiors accurately and comprehensively, and its working methods were improper. In the process of rectification and standardization, such as replacing vaccination certificates, correcting vaccination records and destroying old vaccination certificates, it failed to communicate effectively with the masses in time.
According to the circular, in the next step, the Qingchuan County Health and Wellness Bureau will continue to carry out relevant investigations in depth, openly and transparently investigate the whole process, and seriously rectify the problems found in improper work. If there are violations, they will be dealt with seriously.