He unplugged a refrigerator to charge his cell phone and 1,000 Sputnik vaccines were lost

It looks like a humorous sketch but it’s far from it: the unusual case of a person who unplugged a refrigerator that was storing Covid-19 vaccines to charge their cell phone is real.

According to the press agency AFP, this recklessness was committed in a Kyrgyz clinic Yes wasted nearly 1,000 Sputnik V vaccines.

Although the incident occurred in April, until now, this fact was known, what happened in the public clinic of Biskek, capital of this Asian country.

The late knowledge of this event triggered the reviews various Kyrgyz people, who held local authorities accountable due to the lack of information on the subject.

On another side, Alimkadyr Beyshenaliyev, Minister of Health of that country, mentioned that one of the maintenance workers of the medical center was responsible for what had happened and that the clinic will have to answer for wasted doses.

“If the fault lies with one of the employees, the housekeeper or another person, the clinic will have to respond financially “Beyshenaliyev commented.

These unused vaccines were part of a batch of 20,000 doses delivered by Russia as humanitarian aid to the country.

Recently, according to American media The New York Times, A similar case occurred in a factory producing vaccines from Johnson & johnson in the town of Baltimore, in the USA.

According to the aforementioned media, in this case, human error was that factory workers accidentally mixed ingredients from another vaccine with those from the injection by Johnson & Johnson. This resulted in the 15 million wasted doses.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, in Kyrgyzstan, there was 101,878 positive cases of Covid-19 and have 1,735 people died because of illness.

It should be noted that the vaccination campaign in this country started in March and he was barely able to vaccinate the 0.09 percent Population.