After Thammasat University struck a number of offers to import tens of millions of vaccines to Thailand, they hit a snag with government forms blocking the donation of 3 million Moderna vaccines from Poland. After struggling to get the required paperwork approving the vaccine donation from the federal government, the university had to give up and Thailand will lose the donated vaccines, the primary 1.5 million of which had been scheduled to reach one week ago.
An official letter was wanted from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however when Thammasat University contacted the Ministry, the response was that they had been one their very own of their quest to convey free Moderna vaccines to the folks of Thailand. The Foreign Ministry mentioned their recommendation was according to the rules published in the Royal Gazette and instructed the university try working with the Department of Disease Control as a substitute.
ผลไม้อบแห้ง operates its personal hospital, and on November 14 they may shut their vaccination facility and transfer all medical personnel back to Thammasat Hospital. But they haven’t given up of their quest to obtain alternate vaccines for Thailand, though they’re pressured to surrender on this donation from Poland.
Thammasat University had already made full preparations for the supply of the donated vaccines together with all the logistics and expenses concerned in flying them from Poland, storing them, and even insuring them as the Polish donors requested. They had knowledgeable the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the university would cowl all costs and expenses, and all they wanted was a required letter from a Thai authorities agency formally approving the university to act as a receiving agent for the imported vaccines.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to issue that letter, thus torpedoing the deal for 3 million free Moderna vaccines to be given out to the people of Thailand at no cost. Thammasat University issued a public apology of those who have been hopeful to receive a Modern vaccine from this donation.
For those preserving track, this totals four million free mRNA vaccines donated from Poland and the US beforehand that Thailand didn’t settle for due to bureaucratic red tape..