Uttar Pradesh
UP: Three women given anti-rabies shots instead of Covid jabs, probe confirms
Lucknow/IBNS: Three elderly women in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, who went to a government hospital for Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday, were given anti-rabies shots instead, media reports said.
The state government has acknowledged the blunder after a probe into the matter.
The women were identified as Saroj (70), Anarkali (72) and Satyawati (60) who fell moderately ill after returning from a Community Health Centre in Shamli.
"We have received a detailed report on this episode and we found the women did go to get their Covid vaccinations but by mistake they did not go to the first-floor vaccination centre and instead went to the OPD, where the pharmacist, who was leaving for some work, asked a private person - the pharmacist of a 'Jan Aushadi Kendra' -- to give them anti-rabies shots," said Jasjit kaur, District Magistrate, Shamli, in a video statement to reporters.
That man allegedly administered the shots without question and minus any kind of checks, the inquiry has found.
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