Vaccination: Thousands of patients may have received defective injections from the Sydney clinic | Australia news

Thousands of patients at a Sydney general clinic may need to be vaccinated again after discovering that some vaccines have been poorly preserved or expired.

NSW Health warned Wednesday that the vaccines given by doctors Darrel and Brinda Weinman at their Burwood office since 2010 may not have been effective. More than 3,000 patients have been notified to date.

It includes measles, mumps and rubella vaccines, meningococcal, pneumococcal and other adult vaccines.

"We are writing to patients about this practice asking them to seek the advice of a new general practitioner about the need for revaccination," said Dr. Leena Gupta, Clinical Director of Public Health, Local Health District, Sydney.

"Although NSW Health has no accountability to generalists, we are helping NSW's co-regulators, the NSW Medical Council and the NSW Health Complaints Commission to investigate these incidents." to answer it.

The authorities are not worried about people who have been vaccinated against the flu, mainly because it is given every year, or travel vaccines, which were not kept in practice.

NSW Health was notified of the problem at the end of March following a complaint and immediately opened an investigation.

Brinda Weinman retired in May, while Darrel Weinman died in October.

Gupta said that, due to incomplete record keeping at practice, "it had been" difficult to identify which patients had been vaccinated and to obtain contact information for all patients ".

NSW Health stated that it was assisting the NSW Medical Council and the NSW Health Complaints Commission in investigating and responding to incidents.