In Thane district, a doctor and a nurse were suspended for accidentally giving an anti-rabies vaccine (ARV) to a person who had come here to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Thane Municipal Corporation Additional Commissioner Sandeep Malvi said, “At a health care center in Thane’s Kalwa area, a doctor and a nurse were suspended for giving “anti-rabies dose” instead of a COVID-19 vaccine.
However, the municipal corporation said that the person who was vaccinated with anti-rabies is fine. According to a report in Hindustan Times, Rajkumar Yadav had gone to Atkoneshwar Nagar Primary Health Center in Kalwa East to inquire about the Kovishield vaccine. Dr Rakhi Tawde, the Medical Officer-in-Charge of the center, gave him the papers of the case of Kovidshield Vaccine and asked him to wait in the line.
Additional commissioner Malvi said that Yadav accidentally got into the line of anti-rabies vaccine. When Yadav’s turn came, the nurse Kirti Rayat, who was there, did not see his case papers and did not inform him about the vaccine. According to Malvi, the nurse assumed that Yadav had come for the ARV shot and because of which he got the wrong vaccine.
He told the newspaper, “It was the responsibility of the nurse and the medical officer to inform the patient about vaccination and to check the case papers before giving any vaccine.”
After Yadav was vaccinated, he asked the nurse which vaccine he had been given. To this the nurse told him that it was an anti-rabies vaccine, after which Yadav protested and demanded an explanation.
Yadav, 45, told the newspaper that he had recently undergone surgery. So he went to the health center to ask if he could be given Covid-19.
Yadav said, “The doctor said that I can take the vaccine and gave me the case papers. Since I was unable to stand due to the operation, a person from the hospital asked me to sit in a room.”
Yadav claimed that he was vaccinated on both hands, which made him suspicious. He said, “The nurse did not ask me to show any papers or ask what dose I was there for. I was shocked to hear that when I was not bitten by the dog, they gave me the anti-rabies vaccine. “
Talking about this strange incident, Thane Mayor Naresh Mhaske said that it was the duty of the medical staff to inform the patients which injection they are getting, as the center is in a slum, where most The beneficiaries are illiterate.
Such disturbances are not new in the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC). Just last month, several vaccines went missing and were found in a hair transplant clinic. Along with this, the same woman was vaccinated thrice in a single day and a senior citizen was also given a certificate without testing it.
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