Poland looking to buy swine flu vaccine from Sweden?

Poland has requested the A/H1N1 vaccine from the Sweden, according to Swedish radio station Ekot.

The station has reported that Ewa Kopacz requested some of the Swedish “surplus of vaccine,” while Sweden´s Minister for Social Affairs, Göran Hägglund, was on a visit in Warsaw.

At the time, it is reported that Mr Hägglund rebuffed the request, explaining that according to Swedish law, the vaccine is not owned by the government, but by regional authorities.

However, Poland appears to have sent another, more formal request to the Swedish government.

According to Swedish Public Radio, an agreement is unlikely, as there are still some four million Swedes who have not received any vaccine, while talk of a surplus in the Scandinavian nation is unfounded.

From Warsaw Business Journal

Source:wbj.pl/