The Faculty of Medicine of the Greater National University of San Marcos (UNMSM) considered this Wednesday that the normative and ethical principles of the current regulation and good practices have been violated with the irregular application of vaccines against COVID-19.
Through a statement, this faculty argued that this situation was flagrantly caused by irregularly inoculating a group of people who are not part of the investigation of this inoculation. They also stressed that it happened in the middle of a pandemic that has put the country’s health system in check.
“In the biggest health crisis in our Republican lives regulatory and ethical principles of current regulations and good clinical practice have been flagrantly violated, When using the vaccine in people who are not subjects of research, ”they indicated.
They consider that there was a transgression of standards and norms
The Faculty has detailed the procedures governing the testing of laboratory vaccines Sinopharm, That realize next to the Private University Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). They added that they are bound by ethical postulates and various regulations, guidelines and norms.
In this line, they described as an inexcusable mistake that authorities in charge of the study have committed the explicit transgression of scientific and ethical standards, under the established regulatory frameworks.
“Explicit transgression is an inexcusable mistake in which they have incurred those who precisely should be the example of research excellence, even more so in the unfortunate current circumstances“They said.
They also pointed out that this situation accentuates public distrust in the institutions, so it is necessary to reflect on the causes that produced it, as well as the analysis of its consequences in order to achieve a just society.
In addition, they urged those involved to assume the consequences of their actions and that they take the appropriate decisions to allow the start of “a process of institutional regeneration.”
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