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Coombe doctor brought Covid-19 vaccines home for family, review finds Dublin maternity hospital publishes lawyer’s report on vaccination of staff relatives Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 16:23 Updated: Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 18:10 The Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, Dublin. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times   A medical consultant at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital took doses out of the hospital to vaccinate family members at home, a review of vaccinations by the maternity hospital has found. A lawyer asked to investigate the vaccination of family members of staf...

Dublin maternity hospital holds independent review given ‘serious nature’ of incident

The hospital said 37 people, including GPs and “members of other vulnerable groups” received excess doses. At Temple Street children’s hospital, an “administrative error” was blamed for a number of staff on maternity leave receiving vaccines before other colleagues working in the hospital. The board of the Coombe hospital met on Monday night to discuss controversy around the maternity hospital administering Covid-19 vaccines to non-frontline healthcare workers, including two children of Prof Michael O’Connell, master of the hospital. Former master Prof Chris Fitz...

Coombe board to discuss giving of Covid-19 vaccine to 16 family members of staff Stephen Donnelly spoke to hospital chairman about controversy about leftover doses Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 11:54 Updated: Mon, Jan 18, 2021, 13:38   The board of directors of the Coombe Hospital is to discuss the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine to 16 family members of staff a meeting later on Monday. Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly spoke to chairwoman of the Dublin maternity hospital’s board Mary Donovan about the controversy on Monday afternoon. “Minister Donnelly has spoken with the chair of...

The Dublin hospital "deeply regrets" it but they would have been "discarded" had they not been used.