The nurse noticed the error a few seconds later and immediately reported it. The girl and her parents were then received by the doctor, who called for increased surveillance. The girl did not react immediately and the news since then would be reassuring.
But how to explain such an error? The child was reportedly referred by a healthcare professional on the wrong queue, explains the director of the Avranches-Granville hospital, Joanny Allombert.
We manage several vaccination lines at the same time. And at one point there was a slippage. The girl was asked to sit in the wrong place because there was no room in the right place. And it just happened. The nurse gave the injection and immediately realized her mistake. It shouldn’t have happened. There was a procedural breakthrough and we are going to organize ourselves so that this does not happen again. What matters to me today is especially knowing that to my knowledge, she is doing well for the moment.
Hospital management claims to have taken new measures, in particular the installation of barriers to better define the vaccination routes in this center of Ponts, in particular the course dedicated to children. “We are also considering having different colored forms.“.
This vaccination center will move on Thursday January 6 to move into a larger room, the Victor Hugo room, place Carnot in Avranches where there will be 4 vaccination lines for the general public and two lines for children from 5 to 11 years old.