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Staff member at Dublin hospital takes vaccines home for family members The 16 doses were administered across eight families with two people being vaccinated in their home The Coombe Hospital Want the latest breaking news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our free newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice A staff member at C...

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...

Professor Michael O’Connell stood at the Coombe door and welcomed staff and local community healthcare workers inside.

Irish Independent he is known for his “professionalism and courtesy”. Over the next three days, medical staff worked meticulously taking five, sometimes six or seven doses, from each vial, mixing it with sodium chloride. Each dose was checked twice. In an interview with RTÉ, Prof O'Connell explained that it has to be used within two hours once the vaccine is made up. Up to 50 people were vaccinated an hour, with five or six vaccinators working in rotation. By Friday night, all 1,100 staff had received the first dose of the vaccine, a major hospital achievement. It must have felt like a m...

Covid-19 vaccine doses were given to 16 family members of the Coombe’s hospital staff