TRHA doctor afraid of needles but takes covid19 vaccine
Wednesday 24 February 2021
Dr Ian Sammy, head, Accident and Emergency Department, Scarborough General Hospital receives the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from Nurse Beryl Samuel-Gray, District Health Visitor, on Saturday. PHOTO COURTESY DIVISION OF HEALTH -
Dr Ian Sammy, head of the Accident and Emergency Department, Scarborough General Hospital, says he experienced chills – a common side effect – for two nights after taking the Oxford-AstraZeneca covid19 vaccine on Saturday.
Sammy was among a group of 34 frontline health workers who received the first doses of the vaccine in Tobago. The vaccines were among 2,000 doses which were donated to TT by Barbados.