The syringes delivered with the doses of the Covid vaccine would not be suitable. The bug was revealed on Wednesday by our colleagues from France Info. Thus at the Nice University Hospital, although the vaccine supplies were received normally, the problem of these syringes unsuitable for inoculation of serum forced the nursing staff to use the D system.
The reason: these syringes are not compatible “compared to Pfeizer / BioNTech vaccine standards”. Too short like those used for subcutaneous injections. Except that the Pfeizer doses must be intramuscular, therefore requiring a longer needle.
In stocks
For lack of having received the right equipment, and in order not to paralyze an already very slow vaccination campaign in France, the staff of the Nice University Hospital had to draw on their own stocks of intramuscular syringes. Do not panic.
It is thus possible to vaccinate more or less normally at the Nice university hospital, except that the caregivers are forced to perform additional manipulations. Nothing blocking, but nothing fluid either.
The origin of the bug seems to come from Public Health France, which manages and coordinates the distribution of these vaccine kits (with syringe) between the hospitals authorized to carry out this vaccination campaign against Covid. Obviously in the urgent need to equip hospitals before the end of the year, the control of these kits would not have been sufficient. Still, in Nice, this setback should be quickly resolved: the CHU having reported this problem to Public Health France, a new supply of syringes, this time with the right needles, should be received in the coming days.
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