3 UP Women Given Anti-Rabies Shots Instead Of Covid Jabs, Probe Confirms

The instance of negligence has emerged at a time UP, like many states, has seen a surge in coronavirus cases.

Three elderly women who went to a government hospital for Covid vaccine on Thursday were given anti-rabies shots instead, in a bizarre incident reported from Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh. The state government has acknowledged the blunder after a probe. Saroj (70), Anarkali (72) and Satyawati (60) fell moderately ill after returning from a Community Health Centre in Shamli. "We have received a detailed report on this episode and we found the women did go to get their Covid vaccinations but by mistake they did not go to the first-floor vaccination centre and instead went to the OPD, where the pharmacist, who was leaving for some work, asked a private person - the pharmacist of a 'Jan Aushadi Kendra' -- to give them anti-rabies shots," said Jasjit kaur, District Magistrate, Shamli, in a video statement to reporters. That man allegedly administered the shots without question and minus any kind of checks, the inquiry has found.