Health Minister: interim report on death of nurse from Akhaltsikhe to be published this week
Health Minister said that it is important to improve the quality of each clinic in the regions and the Ministry of Health is doing its best to achieve this goal. Photo: Ministry of Health.
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The State Regulation Agency for Medical Activities will publish an interim report on the death of a 27-year-old nurse from Akhaltsikhe this week, announces Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze.
She said that at the time of the vaccination, the nurse was in a medical facility which had an intensive care unit where she received care, however to no effect.
Tikaradze said that it is important to improve the quality of each clinic in the regions and the Ministry of Health is doing its best to achieve this goal.
Head of the Georgian National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze said that representatives of AstraZeneca may come to Georgia to study the case.
Gamkrelidze said that the regulatory agency will send the report on the nurse's death to the Uppsala Monitoring Centre in Sweden and to the World Health Organization.
He said that both AstraZeneca and the World Health Organisation are interested for the situation to be 'clarified and understood.’
A total of 29,500 doses of Pfizer vaccine will arrive in Georgia and citizens eligible to be vaccinated at this point will be able to choose which one to take against the coronavirus, announces Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tsikaradze.
3,818 health workers have been innoculated against Covid-19 in Georgia so far with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Following the death of 27-year-old Georgian nurse Megi Bakradze earlier today after she received the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 18 and went into anaphylactic shock, Georgian health officials have decided that vaccination will continue only in clinics with intensive care units (ICUs).
A 27-year-old Georgian nurse Megi Bakradze who went into anaphylactic shock after receiving the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine yesterday has died earlier today at first University Clinic of Tbilisi State Medical University.
Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland has commented on the death of a nurse after receiving AstraZeneca vaccination in Georgia, saying that in order to minimise the risks of anaphylaxis, vaccination should be done in an environment where there are doctors and all necessary medicines.
Georgia has reported 528 new cases of coronavirus, 299 recoveries and four deaths in the past 24 hours.
Individuals receiving either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines against Covid-19 will have to stay at clinics for 45 minutes, instead of 30 minutes to be observed if there are any adverse effects, announces deputy Health Minister of Georgia Tamar Gabunia.
Vaccination with Pfizer will be allowed in four clinics of Tbilisi: Republican Hospital, Bokeria clinic, Caucasus Medical Centre and Amtel hospital, in two clinics of Kutaisi and in Batumi Republican Hospital in the Adjara region. Individuals receiving either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines against Covid-19 will have to stay at clinics for 45 minutes, instead of 30 minutes to be observed if there are any adverse effects.