Monday, Jul 6, 2015
An
audit found five South Jersey children were likely given the wrong
immunizations during a Salem County-sponsored "Shots for Tots" clinic,
health officials said. The most egregious error, officials said, was
when a toddler boy was likely given an excessive dose of a cervical
cancer vaccine.
The
free clinic was operated by the Salem County Health Department at
Memorial Hospital of Salem County in Mannington Township, officials
said. It has since been shut down.
Officials
reviewed 22 patient records during an annual audit and found
irregularities with shots given to at least five children between July
2014 and June 2015.
A
nurse was fired after officials learned a 2-year-old boy was injected
with a high dose of Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine. The child's
mother and pediatrician were notified late last month, officials said.
Shots for Tots Clinic: 5 out of 22 Kids Given Wrong Vaccination
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Health
officials are not sure whether the child would suffer negative effects,
but said he may be at risk of neurological damage. Shots of the HPV
vaccine are given to boys and girls starting at age 9.
The audit also found $20,000 worth of vaccines were not properly refrigerated. The drugs were thrown away.
Mandi
Cassidy, the nurse who was fired, told NBC10 Salem County was throwing
her under the bus. She insists she didn't make the mistake and resigned
before the medical audit was even released. Cassidy claims the County is
to blame.
"I
think they not only let down the residents of the county but they let
down the nurse that should've been trained properly," she said. Officials say they will pay for the medical monitoring of the five children.
Wow, this is so, SO sad. =( Thanks for sharing the information. People need to know how risky the whole system is, for so many reasons.
ReplyDeleteHi Diane,
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of this analogy this morning. Let's say two identical twin brothers work for two different companies. Fred works for a big auto manufacturer and Joe works for a vaccine manufacturer. They often find they have identical type days. If Fred has a great day he also finds his brother Joe has a great day. On this particular day Fred keeps missing his rivets to the bumpers he's installing on his cars. Only last week he was called in front of management for an error, the last thing he wants is to go before them again. So he keeps right on working even thought the bumpers aren't secured properly. 6 months later there is a recall of those cars because the bumpers keep falling off. We can physically see the results.
That same day Joe keeps having to adjust the dose of Thimerasol being dropped into the little vaccine bottles because the on/off button keeps sticking. Just last week he was in front of the board because some of the labels were off on his production line. The last thing he wants is his line to go down because of some unforseen problem. However there is no recall of a vaccine with 100 times the dose of mercury, which wouldn't be much, not as much as the eye could see. It's already in a human being's system wreaking havoc.