Doctor had to drive around looking for syringes after vaccine delivered at short notice

Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary said that the HSE needed to learn from the mistakes of the past week with regard to deliveries

A Connemara GP has told of how he had to drive around the area on Saturday night looking for needles and syringes so he could vaccinate patients on Sunday when he received a delivery of the Pfizer vaccine at short notice.

Dr Peter Sloane told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show that he had been shocked and surprised when other GPs in the area had received “hundreds” of doses of the Moderna vaccine while he did not receive any vaccines at all despite submitting an order as instructed by the HSE.