Four hospital staff had been arrested and an investigation was launched after they had been discovered administering “unauthorised vaccine” for COVID-19 to folks in Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida, police mentioned on Wednesday.
The lid blew off the incident after a group of Gautam Buddh Nagar district’s well being officers reached the positioning in Dadri space the place a “vaccination camp” was underway at a pathology laboratory on Tuesday night, they mentioned.
The camp was being organized by the Ghaziabad-based Flores Hospital and people held from the spot mentioned they had been “authorised” by the hospital to manage the vaccine to some folks on the pathology lab, in line with the FIR lodged at Dadri police station.
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“Those arrested have been identified as Rizwan Ali, Sudhakar Yadav, Suresh Kumar Singh and Sanjay Shrivastava, all employees of the hospital. They have been arrested for administering unauthorised COVID-19 vaccine,” a police spokesperson mentioned.
Besides them, hospital administrator Mahesh Chaudhary, pathology proprietor Vikas Vashisht and an area NGO Nari Raksha Dal, which had supported the vaccine camp, have been named within the FIR, the official added.
According to the FIR lodged on a criticism by a well being division official, the pathology was not registered and the vaccine camp was being held there with out informing the Gautam Buddh Nagar administration or the well being division.
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Moreover, the vials for the vaccine had been discovered saved in circumstances towards the laid-out protocols, whereas not one of the 4 staff of the hospital current there was a professional MBBS physician, the FIR acknowledged.
Around 15 folks had been administered the vaccine by the hospital staff throughout the camp earlier than the well being division officers seized the remaining vials, syringes and different tools and handed it over to the police.
The FIR was lodged below Indian Penal Code part 420 (dishonest) in addition to medical-related offences, the police mentioned.
