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 staff with leftover doses in January disclosed details of the vaccinations in a report published by the hospital on Thursday.
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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 momentous moment for Prof O’Connell too, who began his seven-year term as master of the hospital on New Year’s Day in 2020.