Child awarded €20k for being given wrong covid vaccine with a used needle

An apology on behalf of the HSE was read out in court which said the defendant accepted responsibility for what had happened

The court heard that the child afterwards had to undergo blood tests and had to be vaccinated for Hepatitis B. File picture

The HSE has apologized to and compensated a 13-year-old child who was not only injected with a wrong covid-19 vaccination but found out afterwards that a nurse had treated her with an already used needle.

Barrister James Cross told Judge Fiona O’Sullivan in the Circuit Civil Court on Monday that Ella Mockler Mulhern, now within six weeks of her 18th birthday, had suffered significantly as a result of the HSE’s triple take on negligence and breach of duty.