Recently, there has been a great deal of doubt about vaccinations, and this error is doing nothing to improve the case for the flu shot!
Ten residents of an Oklahoma care facility were admitted to the hospital, according to CNN, after receiving an insulin injection rather than a flu shot. After a few minutes, the elderly residents of Jacquelyn House care facility, who were scheduled to receive their flu shots, became unresponsive.
Multiple people were found in the facility unresponsive by emergency medical services (EMS) and fire crews responding to the incident; they were taken to the hospital right away. People with intellectual and developmental disabilities are reportedly served by the facility.
According to police, the majority of the patients were neither able to walk nor talk, which made it challenging for EMS personnel to determine what had gone wrong. At this time, not a single patient has the flu.
“All these people are symptomatic, lying on the ground, needing help but can’t communicate what they need,” Chief Tracy Roles stated. “That’s why I give a lot of praise to the fire and EMS staff for doing an outstanding job identifying the problem.”
According to reports, the pharmacist who injected the insulin works as a contractor and is only paid to give shots. Chile that’s messy business!
“I’ve never seen where theres been some sort of medical misadventure to this magnitude,” Roles said. “But again, it could have been a lot worse. Not to downplay where we are, but thinking about where we could be, it could certainly have been very tragic.”
Some of the patients are still being treated at the Jane Phillips Hospital in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, as of right now.
Tony D. Sellars, the director of communications for the Oklahoma State Department of Health, reports that the agency is examining the incident report from the facility.
“There is no reason to suggest at this point that the facility should have had a reasonable suspicion that this sort of error would occur or be preventable on their part.”
