Working as site manager at the covid vaccination clinic, i was told by my medical assistant that the needles that housed the vaccine that we received in the morning from the hospital pharmacy were defective.The needle separated from the syringe after administering the vaccine and the medical assistant had to pull the separated needle out of the patient's arm.The patient was not aware that the needle was left behind in her arm because she was not looking while she was being vaccinated.I contacted the pharmacy 3 times about the needles and was advised to just give another vaccine.I was told that the needles were new and that they came already attached to the syringe.In return, i told all the vaccinators to make sure that the needles were tight on the syringe, but when we turned the needles, they never came to a complete stop, they would just keep turning, i asked that they did not use those needles again for my remaining batches for the rest of the day.I was told that the pharmacy discarded the new needles.
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