Coombe orders independent review into how 16 family members of staff were given Covid vaccine
Earlier this week it emerged that 16 family members of staff were given the vaccine after vaccinators could find no other health workers to receive leftover jabs. The hospital said that on Friday January 8 at approximately 9pm 16 vaccine doses, of the over 1,100 administered to frontline staff, GPs and local community health workers, were available and if they were not used, they would have had to have been discarded. “At that time, the HSE booking system and portal was not live, as it came online the following morning (Saturday 9th), and so it was not possible to pre-book vaccinations and ...
Source: independent.ie