The callousness of nursing staff in dealing with susceptible therapeutic issues like the COVID19 vaccination was deficiently open to the elements when two different nurses administered two doses of COVID vaccine in rapid succession on an elderly woman.

According to the family member Horumai Saikia, the victim who is a resident of Deopani area of Bokajan subdivision had gone to receive her first dose of Covid-19 vaccine at Balipathat MPHC on Saturday.

The elderly lady was asked to be seated for a while after her first dose of vaccine by the nursing staff present on the immunize seat. A few minutes later all of a sudden a changed nurse of the vaccination camp appeared near the lady with a plunger of vaccine and without a word jabbed the additional dose of the inject-able that is one more dose of the vaccine without caring to ask or find out whether she has been vaccinated or not.

The grandson of the victim, who was observing his grandmother through the window on his feet from outside, did his best to prevent the nurse but the superfluous agile nurse did the damage at the double; she jabbed the liquid vaccine at high-speed. 

The old lady is presently steady and under surveillance at the vaccination centre cum hospital. Cognizant sections of the locality have expressed shock over the incident and have demanded that the authority will have to bear all responsibility if everything doesn’t go well with the lady.  

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