Faculty of Medicine a National University of San Marcos (UNMSM) considered on Wednesday that the normative and ethical principles of the current regulation and good practices with the irregular application of vaccines against COVID-19 were violated.
In a statement, the faculty said that This situation was flagrant when he irregularly inoculated a group of people who were not part of the investigation of this inoculation. They also pointed out that it happened in the middle of a pandemic that controlled the country’s health system.
“In the greatest health crisis of our Republican life the normative and ethical principles of the current regulations and good clinical practices have been blatantly violated, when the vaccine is used in people who are not subject research “, they indicated.
They believe that there has been a transgression of standards and norms
From the faculty, they detailed the procedures governing the testing of laboratory vaccines Sinopharm, which he carries out together with Cayetano Heredia Private University (UPCH). They added that they are bound by ethical postulates and various regulations, guidelines and regulations.
In this direction, they described as an inexcusable error that the authorities responsible for the study suffered in the explicit transgression of scientific and ethical standards, within the established regulatory frameworks.
“It is an inexcusable mistake, an explicit transgression in which appeared those who should be precisely the example of investigative excellence, all the more so in the current terrible situations“They said.
They also stressed that this situation accentuates public distrust in institutions, so it is necessary to reflect on the causes that produced it, as well as on the analysis of its consequences in order to achieve a just society.
In addition, they urged those involved to bear the consequences of their actions and that they make the appropriate decisions to allow the beginning of “a process of institutional regeneration”.
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