After seeking her as an ally, the government headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador will launch a legal battle against the World Health Organization (WHO) through the Global Access Fund for Vaccines against Covid-19 (COVAX), for not delivering the number of agreed vaccines?
Let us remember that this administration sought the UN to obtain the medicines to provide to the different federal and state health systems, but unfortunately to date it has not succeeded, hence the monumental shortage that has been experienced in public clinics and hospitals since 2019 .
The COVAX program, of the UN, promised to deliver 10 million doses of anti-Covid vaccine for boys and girls as soon as possible, but this has not happened, for which now the health authority has threatened that if they are not delivered in September The legal process against him will continue, since to date there is only a formal offer from the agency, but no official date.
But not everything ended there, rather the federal Ministry of Health (SSa) described the experience with COVAX as a “profound and painful failure” worldwide and, in particular in Mexico, access to vaccines through this mechanism “has It was very stormy.”
And it is that on the part of the UN mechanism there have been late deliveries, little clarity in the allocation criteria, types of vaccine, quantities and delivery schedules.
The COVAX mechanism intended that poor countries have access to vaccines at no cost and that countries with upper middle incomes could pay for them, but the model has not worked as expected. The Mexican government disbursed around 160 million dollars for which it obtained 24 million doses.
