From completely depending on imported vaccines, now Vietnam has four vaccine factories with modern machines and technology reaching international standards, equivalent to those of other countries in the region and the world.
Early difficult days
Breakthrough of Vietnamese vaccines
Four vaccine plants with international standards of Vietnam:
Eleven Vietnamese-made vaccines include:
Tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping-cough, tetanus, measles, polio, hepatitis B, pneumonia / purulent meningitis caused by Hib, Japanese B encephalitis, cholera and typhoid.
The health sector’s cadres carry out the expanded immunization programme in mountain areas.
Inoculating the child with a measles vaccine at Hanoi Preventive Health Centre.
Thanks to the great progress of Vietnam’s vaccine sector, over 90% of Vietnamese children nationwide have been inoculated from the expanded immunization programme.
The most modern measles vaccine plant in Vietnam was built with over 20 million dollars funded by the Japanese Government.
The system of modern machines with international standards ensures a sanitary environment for producing a measles vaccine.
The stage of creating an environment for transplanting cells during the process of producing a measles vaccine.
The system’s technical parameters are regularly examined and adjusted.
Clean eggs without disease causing substances are imported from Germany.
All instruments are cleaned by WFI before being put into the steamer and dyer.
The process of cleaning and sterilizing vaccine bottles is strictly supervised.
Checking the chicken foetus cells before transplanting a measles vaccine.
Checking sterilization is a compulsory stage after finishing each stage of production.
Putting the cells into bottles for transplanting.
Taking samples for checking the quality of the solution for transplanting cells.
The product after the stage of seprating cells and creating an environment for cell transplantation.
Preparing to package vaccine tubes.
Transporting freeze-dried measles vaccine to the automatic tube capping machine.
The automatic tube capping machine in the vaccine production line.
Running the machine for bottling distilled water for inoculation.
The area for product packaging.
A delegation of Japanese experts visit POLYVAC Measles Vaccine Plant.
Vietnamese-made measles vaccine products.
Source: VNP