Chairman of Covid-19 working group, Dr NK Arora has said India may begin testing the feasibility of mixing doses of two different Covid-19 jabs in the next few weeks. Similar experiments in Europe and the US have given encouraging results.
A female health worker was suspended and a medical officer got transferred, two weeks after 20 villagers in Uttar Pradesh s Siddharthnagar district were administered Covaxin after receiving Covishield in the first dose.
After 20 people were given a mixed shot of Covishield and Covaxin in Uttar Pradesh's Siddharthnagar district, the Chief health officer ordered a crackdown on the negligent officers at the primary health center in the district. The negligence of doctors and the health department has now sparked a debate over the use of a cocktail of vaccines for treating Covid-19. Watch the video.
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The incident took place on May 14 at the primary health centre in Barhni
A female health worker was suspended and a medical officer got transferred, two weeks after 20 villagers in Uttar Pradeshâs Siddharthnagar district were administered Covaxin after receiving Covishield in the first dose.
The incident took place on May 14 at the primary health centre in Barhni where people from Audahi Kala and another village received Covaxin shots. Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Sandeep Chaudhary has admitted departmental negligence on their part and suspended Auxiliary Nursing Midwife (ANM) Kalavati in this regard.
Besides, Shivesht Kumar, the medical officer, who was in charge of the health centre, was transferred, an official statement said. The CMO also issued a recovery order of Rs 7,500 against Immunisation Officer Shanti Singh after 50 doses of Covishield were found missing from the cold chain, it said.