Doctor says Georgian nurse who died following AstraZeneca shot did not receive proper medical assistance
Doctor Violeta Inasaridze said that she thought that it was 'a simple reaction, like an allergic reaction'. Photo: TV9.
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A doctor at the Imedi Clinic in Akhaltsikhe says 27-year-old nurse Megi Bakradze, who died after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine, was not given proper medical assistance in the first minutes after going into anaphylactic shock.
Violeta Inasaridze, who was called in to testify in a case that was opened following Bakradze’s tragic death, claimed in her first testimony that she gave adrenaline to Bakradze once the latter went into shock; she has now admitted in a modified testimony that she did not actually provide medical care to Bakradze.
Inasaridze said that she thought that it was 'a simple reaction, like an allergic reaction'.
I have seen something like this very often, it is normal, it could have been emotional, she was an emotional child, and I thought it was not an alarming situation", Inasaridze said.
She said that she had done nothing when seeing Bakradze in this situation and left her with a 'reliable person'.
Inasaridze also said that according to the protocol, it is not the function of the doctor to examine the patient before vaccination.
In this case, examination means listening to the lungs, looking at the throat, listening to the heart..which did not happen in the case of Bakradze or anyone else. But we give a questionnaire to get information, including asking patient about his/her health condition, and if the information provided by the patients shows that he/she has complaints, then I will examine him/her and if there is a risk of contraindications, I will not conduct the vaccination process", Inasaridze said.
Doctors accused in the case of Bakradze Violeta Inasaridze, Beka Liparteliani and Tea Gzirishvili were sentenced to 3,000 GEL bail each earlier today.
They face two to six years if convicted.
Three employees of Imedi hospital in the southwestern Georgian town of Akhaltsikhe have been charged by the Prosecutor’s Office for providing false information about the recent death of 27-year-old nurse Megi Bakradze.
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.
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.
Megi Bakradze, a 27-year-old nurse in the Georgian town of Akhaltsikhe, developed an alleged anaphylactic reaction after receiving the first shot of AstraZeneca vaccine earlier today. She has been hospitalised in Tbilisi and her condition is severe.
Georgia has reported 777 new cases of coronavirus, 342 recoveries and nine deaths in the past 24 hours.
Georgia has reported a total of 506 new cases of Covid-19 after conducting 25,752 (including 9,982 PCR and 15,769 rapid) tests over the last 24 hours. Out of the 506 new cases 240 were reported in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
The Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office on Wednesday filed charges against a doctor of a clinic in the country’s southern Akhaltsikhe municipality whose alleged neglect of duties led to the death of a nurse in the facility last year after she received a Covid vaccine.