The public health department officials said departmental action would be taken against the nurse and a complaint has also been filed at the police station.
A 58-year-old staff nurse, who was working at an Urban Primary Health Centre (UPHC) in Tamil Nadu’s Karur, has been suspended after she was accused of fleeing with Covisheild vaccine doses and administering them at her house to her relatives and local residents.
The nurse, P Dhanalakshmi, is a resident of Vedasandur in Dindigul. Sources said the Vedasandur block medical officer, Dr. Maheshwari, received information that a nurse had been administrating vaccines privately at her residence. On Sunday, the health department officials raided her residence and found several doses of Covisheild vaccines. The block medical officer had informed the deputy director of public health.
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On Monday, the nurse was suspended by the Karur Municipality. An official from Karur Municipality Commissioner told indianexpress.com that eight vaccine vials were recovered from her residence.
“Based on the initial reports, we have suspended her. The investigation is underway, details about how she managed to get vaccines to her home, are there any other persons involved in this needs to be ascertained,” he said.
The public health department officials said departmental action would be taken against the nurse and a complaint has also been filed at the police station. The nurses at the UPHC said Dhanalakshmi had been working there for over 10 years.
Janardhan Koushik is Deputy Copy Editor of indianexpress.com. He is a New Media journalist with over five years of reporting experience in the industry. He has a keen interest in politics, sports, films, and other civic issues.
Janardhan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from SRM Arts and Science College and a PG Diploma in New Media from Asian College of Journalism, one of the top ranked journalism schools in India.
He started his career with India Today group as a sub-editor as part of the sports team in 2016. He has also a wide experience as a script-writer having worked for short-films, pilot films as well as a radio jockey cum show producer while contributing for an online Tamil FM.
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