He Vaccinated 30 Students With 1 Syringe, Then Asked “How Is It My Fault”
He Vaccinated 30 Students With 1 Syringe, Then Asked “How Is It My Fault”
Thirty college students have been vaccinated the use of a single syringe in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar on Wednesday in a stunning violation of single-use of syringe procedure.
The vaccinator, Jitendra, claimed simplest one syringe turned into despatched with the aid of using the government and he turned into ordered with the aid of using the “head of department” to vaccinate all of the kids with it.
Disposable syringes, supposed for single use, were round for the reason that Nineties when you consider that HIV commenced spreading.
The man or woman who added the substances simplest gave a single syringe.
Asked if he turned into conscious that one syringe ought to now no longer be used to inject more than one people, Jitendra stated, “I realize that. Which is why I requested them if I need to use simply one syringe and that they stated ‘yes’. How is that this my fault? I did what I turned into requested to do.”
Sagar district management has lodged a First Information Report in opposition to Jitendra for negligence and blatantly violating the Central government’s “one needle, one syringe, one time” pledge.
A departmental inquiry has additionally been commenced in opposition to Dr Rakesh Roshan, the District Immunization Officer who turned into in price of sending the vaccine and the opposite required substances withinside the morning.
The incident came about throughout a Covid vaccination camp for college kids at Jain Public Higher Secondary School in Sagar city. Noticing that the kids have been being vaccinated with a single syringe, the mother and father raised alarm.
Collector in-price Kshitij Singhal right away informed the Chief Medical and Health Officer to behavior an inspection. Jitendra, however, turned into now no longer gift throughout the inspection. Sources stated his telecellsmartphone turned into additionally switched off for the reason that incident got here to light.
A month earlier than COVID-19 vaccination commenced in India in January 2021, the Union Ministry for Health and Family Welfare had pledged a strict “One needle, one syringe, simplest one time” protocol.