Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) warned Tuesday, there might be a shortage of up to two billion syringes in 2022, which threatened to hamper the global vaccine efforts did not improve.
The shortcomings are the results of the Covid-19 vaccine campaign, with billions of more syringes than normal used throughout the world, global supplies of diocal.
Lisa Hedman, WHO senior adviser on access to medicines and health products, said that as a supply of covid-19 vaccine doses increased, syringe supply needed to compensate.
“We raise real concerns that we can have a lack of syringe immunization, which in turn will cause serious problems, such as slowing immunization efforts,” he told reporters.
“Depending on how the absorption of the vaccine is running, it can be a deficit from one billion to two billion.” More than 7.25 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been given globally, according to AFP calculations.
It almost doubled the number of routine vaccinations provided per year – and twice the number of syringes needed.
Hedman said one serious result of deficiency could delay routine vaccination, which could have public health impacts “for years to come” if the generation of young people loses the vaccination of normal childhood.
Disadvantages can also cause unsafe practices to reuse syringes and needles.
Hedman said there were obstacles to syringe supply can only be exacerbated by export restrictions and transportation problems.
He urged the state to plan the needle needs in advance to avoid the stockpiling and panic purchase situation.
Hedman said, “The effort is being carried out to reduce the risk of being zero in terms of the actual number that we can short”.