Aligarh vaccine botch up
Aligarh nurse booked for throwing Covid vaccine loaded syringes in garbage
Aligarh/IBNS: An FIR has been filed against ANM (auxiliary nurse midwife) Niha Khan for throwing away 29 Covid vaccines loaded syringes in the garbage and then marking the beneficiaries as ‘vaccinated' in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh.
Khan has been found guilty of misconduct, medical malpractice and negligence, the district health committee probing the case said.
Confirming that Niha Khan has been booked in the case, the committee reportedly gave its consent for conducting judicial inquiry against her.
An FIR has been registered against Niha Khan under Section 203, 176, 465, 427, 120 B 3/4 of IPC at Civil Lines police station of Aligarh.
In her statement recorded on May 25, Niha Khan confessed to having inserted injections inside the body of the vaccine recipients but took them out without releasing the doses. She then threw the loaded vaccines in the dustbin.
Jamalpur PHC centre in-charge Dr Afreen has been accused of covering up the act. She has also been named in the FIR.
Dr Afreen too confessed that at around 4:30 pm she received a call from Arvind Pharmacist informing her about the incident.
Arvind Pharmacist also sent Dr Afreen pictures which clearly showed the loaded syringe being cut from the hub (plastic part at base of needle) with the help of a hub cutter.
According to reports, Dr Afreen was aware of this but chose to not inform her superiors about Khan’s act.
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