He unplugged a refrigerator to recharge his cell phone and his ec …

Nail The Kyrgyz clinic had to throw away nearly a thousand doses of Sputnik V after a person unplugged the refrigerator where it was stored to recharge their cell phone. The covid-19 vaccines, now useless, were part of a batch of 20,000 doses that Russia has delivered as humanitarian aid to the central Asian country.

The vaccination campaign started in March. In Kyrgyzstan, Russian vaccines are more applied than Chinese vaccines from Sinopharm.

The incident took place in April at a public clinic in Bishkek, but it only became known this week and led to strong criticism of the authorities.

According to the Minister of Health, Alimkadyr Beyshenaliyev, a maintenance worker could have been responsible for the error as he searched for an outlet to charge his cell phone. “If the fault lies with one of the employees, the housekeeper or someone else, the clinic will have to answer financially,” he told reporters.

In April, the minister appeared on television to promote the root of a plant – known to be highly toxic to humans – as a supposed miracle cure for COVID-19, amid a new wave of infections .

He even took a few sips of the so-called remedy, which contains extracts from aconite root, a mountain plant that contains toxins that are deadly to humans but is used in traditional medicine.

Kyrgyzstan is experiencing a third wave of covid-19 and officially recorded more than 100,000 cases and 1,735 deaths on Friday, for a population of 6.5 million people.