Ad hoc panel to procure vaccines with private sector participation

[webfact]

(Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

 

Thailand’s former public health minister, Clin.Prof. Emeritus Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn has been appointed head of an ad hoc panel to procure alternative brands of COVID-19 vaccines for the Thai people, besides AstraZeneca and Sinovac, after the CCSA has agreed to allow the private sector to participate in the procurement of an additional 10 million doses.

 

CCSA spokesman Dr. Taweesin Visanuyothin said today (Friday) that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha admitted at the CCSA meeting today that he feels uncomfortable over the confusing reports that the government’s vaccine management allegedly favours certain companies and monopolises the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines, preventing other companies from procuring alternatives.

 

The current situation is that there is an increased demand and the 61 million doses of AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines, already bought, will not be enough to generate herd immunity, which requires 45 million people in the country to be inoculated, he said, adding that the CCSA has agreed to procure another 10 million doses from sources other than AstraZeneca and Sinovac, and the private sector will be allowed to get involved in the process.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/ad-hoc-panel-to-procure-vaccines-with-private-sector-participation/

 

 

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[RichardColeman]

12 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s former public health minister, Clin.Prof. Emeritus Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn has been appointed head of an ad hoc panel to procure alternative brands of COVID-19 vaccines for the Thai people

Sounds like an all hands bulletin to bail out the HMS Thailand boat to me.

Edited April 9, 2021 by RichardColeman

[Flying Saucage]

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha admitted at the CCSA meeting today that he feels uncomfortable over the confusing reports that the government’s vaccine management allegedly favours certain companies and monopolises the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines, preventing other companies from procuring alternatives.

 

Well, didn't he and the government and the judiciary do everything to show the people that exactly this is the case, by choosing and protecting one specific Thai company, and by rejecting India to supply vaccine to Thailand?  

 

Now with the new wave, they experience a strong couterstroke, not only damaging their business model for the sourcing of Thailands vaccine and their propaganda plan, but also even sensing anxiety about their own future in Thailands power structure due to obviously having willingly delayed the vaccination campaign in the country.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

CCSA spokesman Dr. Taweesin Visanuyothin said today (Friday) that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha admitted at the CCSA meeting today that he feels uncomfortable over the confusing reports that the government’s vaccine management allegedly favours certain companies and monopolises the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines, preventing other companies from procuring alternatives.

I'm shocked.....

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Sounds like an all hands bulletin to bail out the HMS Thailand boat to me.

With this new strain seemingly capable of hitting Thailand hard the PM now sees the light, meaning it must look further than a certain manufacturer in Thailand to procure enough vaccines to stop it going down the pan after Songkrans freedom of movement plan.

[mtls2005]

Yet when a rival politician questioned the regime's vaccine "plan" he was met with court orders to remove videos, and threatened with CCA charges.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30401526?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=internal_referral

 

 

 

[tingtong]

The math still doesn't add up, but it isn't the strength of Thai schools...

 

(61 mill + 10 mill) /2= 35.5 million

 

Said the target min. 45 million...

 

 

[connda]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

after the CCSA has agreed to allow the private sector to participate in the procurement of an additional 10 million doses.

Whoop-Dee-Do.  5 million special people can get the two shots required by most vaccines.  7% of the population.  Given supply and demand the private hospitals should be able to mark up the prices by 3x to 5x if not more.

[John Drake]

Better than nothing. I'm guessing this is the only chance those of us who are foreigners will get for any vaccine at all.

[richard_smith237]

Bingo....  CP Group, Some in the Military and “others” stand to make a profit - watch the incredible turn around now...  accelerated arrivals of Vaccines...