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.
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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.
The clarification comes following reports that health workers in Uttar Pradesh s Siddharthnagar district administered Covaxin to 20 villagers who had been given Covishield in the first dose.
The auxiliary nursing midwife (ANM) was suspended for negligence on Thursday after 20 people in a UP village were administered mixed doses of Covid-19 vaccine.
, May 27 (IANS) After initially denying that about 20 residents of a village in Uttar Pradesh s Siddhartha Nagar district were administered a different vaccine brand for the second dose, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Sandeep Chaudhary said that .