'This should not have happened': Coombe doctor took vaccine doses home for family-report

'This should not have happened': Coombe doctor took vaccine doses home for family-report

The Coombe Hospital was subject to an early furore over the vaccine rollout. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

A doctor at the Coombe Woman and Infants Hospital took two doses of Covid-19 vaccine home to give to his family, an independent review has found. 

16 relatives of hospital staff received the vaccine when there were leftover doses on January 8 as the first stages of the vaccine rollout were getting underway.

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