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Local gardaí or fire brigade staff were not offered leftover Covid-19 vaccines by doctors in the Coombe Hospital who gave the jabs to their own families, an independent review revealed yesterday.
Coombe master Prof Michael O Connell, who was among doctors who gave left-over Covid-19 vaccines to own family members, told the review he thought of offering them to local gardaí or fire brigade staff but did not suggest it to colleagues.
Prof O Connell – referred to a consultant C – in the review report said he was concerned about consent as well as medical history of gardaí and members of the fire brigade.
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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.
Two Covid-19 vaccines were brought home and given to family of staff at the Coombe Hospital, an independent review into 16 vaccines given to family members has found.