Nurse who went into shock after vaccination taken off ventilator

A medical worker receives a vaccine shot in Da Nang. (Photo: VNA)

Da
Nang (VNS/VNA) – A 31-year-old female nurse who suffered anaphylactic
shock after receiving a dose of the on May 10 was
taken off a ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit of the Da Nang General
Hospital on Tuesday after recovering sufficiently.

Director
of the Da Nang General Hospital, Dr Le Duc Nhan, said it was the first
severe shock after the second COVID-19 vaccination programme for medical
workers between May 5-10 in the city.

He
said the nurse had no reaction to the , but
experienced shortness of breath and chest pain just after the injection.

She
was rapidly treated by doctors and staff in the Intensive Care Unit of
the hospital, Nhan said.

He
added that eight people had faced minor anaphylactic reactions such as fever
and rash of the first 450 injections, but no serious reactions were reported.

The
city’s health department has temporarily halted the vaccine programme for
further medical reviews and discussion with the Ministry of Health.

At
least 8,424 doses, of which 1,272 reserved for the General
Hospital, have been allocated for frontline medical staff and journalists in
the city.

Last
week, a female medical worker in An Giang province died of anaphylactic shock after receiving a dose of
the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine./.