Pharmacist attached to Tiruppur UPHC suspended
The Hindu
Tiruppur Corporation officials had allegedly used staff nurses from a private hospital for the vaccination drive.
Following the controversy over a COVID-19 vaccination drive recently held by Tiruppur Corporation for industry workers using the vaccine doses allocated for urban primary health centres (UPHC), the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (DPH) announced that a pharmacist attached to a UPHC in the city has been suspended in connection with the incident. The DPH said in a statement on Friday that Deputy Director of Health Services (Tiruppur) K. Jegadeesh Kumar conducted an inquiry into the incident based on media reports. He ordered the suspension of the pharmacist and “initiated disciplinary action” against him. Tiruppur Corporation officials had allegedly used staff nurses from a private hospital for the vaccination drive. The hospital has been “temporarily removed” from the list of vaccination centres in the CoWIN portal, the statement said. Further explanation has been sought from the UPHC’s medical officer.
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