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A clinic in Kyrgyzstan had to throw away almost a thousand doses of the Sputnik V vaccine
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A Kyrgyz public clinic had to throw almost thousand doses from Sputnik V vaccine against covid-19, after a person unplugged the refrigerator where they were stored to charge his mobile phone, authorities said.
The now useless vaccines were part of a batch of 20,000 doses that Russia delivered as humanitarian aid to this poor Central Asian country. The vaccination campaign started in March and Russian injections are more popular than Sinopharm’s Chinese ones.
The incident took place in April at a public clinic in Bishkek, but was not made public until this week, sparking criticism against the authorities. According to the Minister of Health, Alimkadyr Beyshenaliyev, a maintenance worker could have been responsible for the error when he was looking for a socket to charge his cell phone.
“If the fault lies with one of the employees, the cleaning lady or someone else, the clinic will have to respond financially,” he told reporters.
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In April, the minister had appeared on television to promote the root of a plant – known to be highly toxic to humans – as a supposed miracle cure for COVID-19, amid a new wave of infections. He even took a few sips of the remedy in front of the journalists, which contains extracts of aconite root, a mountain plant that contains toxins that are deadly for humans but is used in traditional medicine.
Kyrgyzstan is experiencing a third wave of covid-19 and officially registered more than 100,000 cases and 1,735 deaths as of Friday, for a population of 6.5 million people.
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