In an emergency resolution at its council meeting, which opened virtually yesterday, WMA said citizens of some countries are experiencing serious complications in travelling as their vaccinations are not accepted as proof of full protection.
This came as a chief consultant family physician, past president of the Nigerian Medical Association and current President of Commonwealth Medical Association , Dr. Osahon Enabulele, was last week appointed as president-elect of WMA. “It is restricting international cooperation and business, disadvantaging mainly poorer countries and regions. In some cases, it has led to requests from vaccinated people for a third and fourth dose. This time, of vaccines accepted as providing the necessary level of protection,” it said.
WMA said it understands the reluctance of pharmaceutical authorities to allow the introduction of vaccines for which an authorisation has not been applied in their jurisdiction, or which are still in the process of authorisation or may have been rejected because their ethical or technical standards of testing or production do not meet the required standards.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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