Several employees were vaccinated with the same syringe against Covid-19 at a site of the Austrian steel company Voestalpine.
A "
medical error
" reported to justice, said the service provider on Friday.
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In a factory of 500 employees located in Mürzzuschlag (south-east), "
we discovered that the number of vaccination kits used by one of the doctors did not correspond to the number of people vaccinated
", explained the center. health department of the Vamed organization, in charge of operations. The person, "
who vaccinated 59 people, explained that she may have used some of the syringes several times,
" he said, without giving details of the reasons for this blunder.
She was immediately "
released from her duties
", adds Vamed, who says he is "
deeply concerned about this individual medical error
" and claims to have informed the Order of Physicians, the health authorities and reported the facts to the prosecution. In a statement sent to AFP, Voestalpine expresses its incomprehension and demands transparency on how such an error could have occurred. The group, which carried out checks on all vaccination chains, made psychological assistance available to the employees concerned. Voestalpine is studying possible legal consequences. In Austria, the government has made vaccine doses available to companies which they themselves are responsible for administering when their capacity allows.
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The steelmaker, headquartered in Linz, Upper Austria (north), employs nearly 48,000 people in around fifty countries and its special steels are used in railways, automobiles, aviation, household appliances and oil and gas industry.