Romanian Health Minister Sacks Head Of Country’s Vaccine-Making Institute

Romania’s Health Minister Cseke Attila on Friday sacked Radu Iordachel, head of the country’s Cantacuzino Institute, which produces vaccines, over failure to tackle and fix the institute’s production deficiencies.

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The health minister fired the institute's head following an authorization report drafted by the National Medicine Agency (ANM), which had withdrawn the institute's vaccine-making license in February over failure to comply with EU good manufacturing practice regulations.

The agency said in its report the institute has not implemented all the measures it had promised to retrieve its license.

The agency said the production line for seasonal vaccines has been mended, but the institute cannot yet be allowed to resume production of anti-tuberculosis vaccines, which hinders the country's national immunization calendar.

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