ASANSOL: The deputy mayor of Asansol Municipal Corporation (AMC), Tabassum Ara, has been served a show-cause notice by the West Bengal health department for administering a Covid-19 vaccine without the required training. A notice was also issued to the nodal medical officer of the camp and two nursing staffers.
AMC commissioner Nitin Singhania said, “We have deployed a medical officer for three days at the house of the person who received the vaccine.” Ara had taken the syringe from a health worker and vaccinated a woman on Saturday in the presence of government nodal medical officers at a camp in Sitarampur Chabka and its photograph went viral.
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Asansol (West Bengal) [India], July 4 (ANI): Former deputy mayor of Asansol Municipal Corporation and TMC leader Tabassum Ara on Saturday landed in controversies after she allegedly administered COVID-19 vaccine to an individual.
In the viral video, Tabassum Ara was seen administering a vaccine to a woman at a COVID vaccination centre in Asansol.
However, she denied the claims saying that she only held syringe in her hand and did not actually administered the vaccine. I held the syringe in my hand for awareness during the COVID vaccination program.
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