Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked the Ministry of Health to report about the supply of five-in-one Pentaxim vaccine and the shortage of the 5 in one and six in one vaccines in two big cities including Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
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Deputy PM Dam said that only Vietnam has two types of vaccine including the vaccine in the National Expanded Immunization program and paid- vaccines. In other country, people do not have to pay for vaccines for their kids. It is time to have to provide free-of-charge vaccines to children, said Mr. Dam.
The Ministry of Health must prepare a roadmap so that by 2020, the Southeast Asian nation will give free vaccination to children. Along with this, it needs to push vaccine production for the local demand.
