Rubén Moreno Palanques

Ruben Moreno Palanques (Castellón, Spain, 23 July 1958)[1][2] is a Spanish politician of the conservative People's Party (PP), who earned his MD PhD at the University of Valencia.

His maternal grandfather stood in the municipal elections that had been called by the II Republic, for Republican Action party.

Admitted to the Vall d´Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, every effort was made to have the so special therapeutic resources that this disease required in the current circumstances, in which there was no case of diphtheria since 1988.

After a comprehensive and complex search for diphtheria antitoxin conducted directly by the Secretary General of Health and Consumer Affairs in the different countries of the world that could have it, he was able to locate it in less than 48 hours in Russia, whose authorities made it available to Spain by immediately and disinterestedly sending it from Moscow.

The Minister Alfonso Alonso and the Secretary General of Health and Consumer Affairs Ruben Moreno promoted the approval by the Interterritorial Council of the SNS, in the plenary of July 29, 2015, of the vaccination calendar modification, to administer the vaccine to all children of an early pediatric age (first dose at 12–15 months and second between 3 and 4 years) beginning in 2016.

This vaccine was authorized in the European Union in January 2013, but in Spain it was qualified as for hospital use only by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS).

This situation resulted in numerous requests from families and the Autonomous Communities (CCAA) who did advocate that government made the vaccines available in Spanish pharmacies.