The CEO of Health Australia has resigned after one of the company s doctors gave two aged care residents four times the correct dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
A 94-year-old woman and an 88-year-old man were given too much of the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday, the second day of Australia s vaccination rollout, at Holy Spirit aged care home in Carseldine, Brisbane.
Both were admitted to hospital for observation but have suffered no adverse effects.
The woman has been returned to the home while the man remains in hospital for an unrelated elective surgery.
The two elderly people given an incorrect dose of the Pfizer vaccine re residents at the Holy Spirit Nursing Home Carseldine in Brisbane (pictured)
The boss of an Australian contractor at the centre a Covid vaccine overdose bungle at a nursing home has stood down.
A 94-year-old woman and an 88-year-old man were given too much of the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday, the second day of Australia s vaccination rollout, at Holy Spirit aged care home at Carseldine, Queensland.
Healthcare Australia, a company contracted by the federal government to give vaccines in aged care homes, was put on notice after an investigation found the doctor who administered the jab had not completed immunisation training.
The doctor has since been stood down from the vaccination program, and on Thursday afternoon was joined by Haelthcare Australia chief executive Jason Cartwrigth.
A doctor who incorrectly gave two elderly people in a Queensland aged care home a "higher than the recommended dose" of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine, did not complete the required vaccination training, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says.
Two Queensland aged care residents were given more than the prescribed dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. Here is a look at how Australia's healthcare systems are designed to make sure that doesn't happen again.
A GP who gave two Brisbane care home patients four times the recommended dose of the Covid-19 vaccine had not been trained in how to administer the jab.