Scandal in Germany: Sick woman smashed Pfizer bottle and filled syringe with saline to hide mistake

The negligent decision of a German nurse to fill syringes that they should receive doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech coronavirus vaccine with saline solution, aroused the indignation of public opinion. The woman chose to hide her mistake after You dropped a vial of immunizer.

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The worker, in her forties, was not responsible for vaccinating people, but rather prepared the syringes that were used in a vaccination center in the district of Frieze, north-west of Germany. According to information revealed by the Red Cross, she will be fired in the coming days.

The six syringes containing saline solution were used and health authorities, to reassure those affected, confirmed that the application of the substance it is harmless and does not present a health risk. Its use is common in the medical field and serves to dilute the vaccine.

Saturday, the nurse told a colleague about the incident that this had happened three days before and that the companion could not keep the revelation a secret: she immediately reported it to her superiors. Without it, the false vaccination would have gone unnoticed.

The accused was summoned by the police and made a full statement in which “she seemed sincere and very worried», As revealed by the police. Meanwhile, the Oldenburg district attorney’s office began investigating a possible crime of assault by the nurse, although investigators believe it was an isolated case.

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The director of the vaccination center where the event took place, Uwe Nitsche, announced that on May 5 antibody tests will be performed to the 200 people who were vaccinated at the center before 1 p.m. on Wednesday April 21. This will help to know who was inoculated with the saline solution and therefore they must be properly immunized.

According to Nitsche, if the nurse had reported the accident at the time, it would not have been a problem. Usually there are always last minute cancellations and there are leftover vaccines, meaning that it would not have been necessary to send anyone home.

A case similar to that which occurred in Germany, but on a larger scale, occurred in France, where a total of 140 people that they must be vaccinated against the coronavirus with doses of Pfizer-BioNtech, were inoculated with saline solution following an error in the preparation of the syringes.

From this case, Sven ambrosy, the administrative authority of the district of Friesland, has decided to modify the vaccination protocols and now the controls have been intensified. To prevent the same from happening again, syringes cannot be filled by one person and supervision of preparations will be more rigorous.

(Source: DPA)