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Standby list of frontline healthcare workers should be in place for any leftover vaccines, HSE says
A HSE document says “every effort should be made” to ensure vaccines are given to frontline healthcare workers. By Orla Dwyer Monday 18 Jan 2021, 3:46 PM Jan 18th 2021, 3:46 PM 14,966 Views 25 Comments
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A HSE DOCUMENT on Covid-19 vaccination of frontline healthcare workers has said there should be a standby list of healthcare workers available to avoid any waste in the instance of leftover vaccines.
The document published on 12 January also said that vaccination centres were initially based at locations with “access to sufficient numbers of staff to ensure that the vaccine is used” which “raises geographical equity of access for people who do not w
Hospital Master Professor Michael O Connell said that the doses were administered to family members to ensure they would not be discarded. He added that he now regrets giving the vaccines to staff family members. The decision to use the vaccines that had already been made up was made to ensure that not a single reconstituted vaccine was wasted, he said. Had they not been used they would have been discarded. I was keenly aware of that and throughout the evening and from 9.30pm onward I personally made every effort to prioritise and identify additional frontline workers and followed all measures available to me at the time.
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