In an instance of sheer negligence in Odisha, A 51-year-old man in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district was administrated two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine within only 30 minutes. The man identified as Prasanna Kumar Sahu of Raghupur village had visited the temporary vaccination camp at the Satyasai Government High School at Khuntapur for the first dose after booking a slot on Saturday.

As per procedure,  he was under observation for half an hour,  during which a nurse erroneously administered another dose of the vaccine to him, Sahu said. “I raised the alarm, but by that time, the nurse had already administered the vaccine,” Sahu said.

He was asked to undergo observation for two more hours and was given ORS drink, centre observer Rajendra Behera said, adding that the man was sitting at the vaccination place instead of going to the observation room.

Rajendra Behera, the official observer at the vaccination centre, claimed the gaffe happened as Sahu  was present in the vaccination area even after receiving the shot instead of shifting to the observation room. It was by mistake that he was given the second dose, he said.

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