Noida: A two-member inquiry team from Aligarh health department has said there is no account of at least 32 vials of Covaxin meant for the primary health centre (PHC) in Naurangabad that came in news after vaccines meant for it landed up in Greater Noida.
While the in-charge of the PHC, Dr Rammiyya Pillai, has been transferred, services of a staff nurse Pushpa who used to maintain registers at the PHC have been terminated.
Officials said of the 579 vials that have reached the Aligarh PHC so far, only 547 have been used. When committee members Dr Anupam Bhaskar and Dr SP Singh, both additional chief medical officers in Aligarh, questioned the PHC staff about the discrepancy, they were told some vials were damaged and they had been thrown. “As per information updated on Co-WIN, the number of vaccines administered matches with the stock but the information in the PHC register seems to be incomplete,” an official said.
Five Covid patients died in Aligarh town on Wednesday night after the private hospital treating them ran out of oxygen and the Uttar Pradesh government failed to supply more in time, their families have alleged.
Dr Sanjiv Sharma, medical superintendent of the SJD Hospital, and a government official denied that lack of oxygen had caused the deaths.
“Hospital authorities told us in the evening they had no oxygen left and the patients had to be shifted,” Shyam Kumar, relative of Mukesh Kumar who died at the SJD Hospital, said.
He said the families could not find beds in hospitals that had oxygen and requested SJD authorities “to make some arrangement”.