Houston wir haben / hatten ein Problem nach einem 6stündigen Impfwettlauf mit der Zeit!
Der Strafrichter Franklin Bynum tadelte die Staatsanwaltschaft, weil sie Anklage gegen den Arzt Dr. Hasan Gokal (aus Sugar Land, Texas) erhoben hatte. Dr. Gokal ist ein staatlich geprüfter Notarzt in Houston, Texas. "Eine Entschuldigung von Harris County Public Health und der Bezirksstaatsanwaltschaft von Harris County gegenüber Dr. Gokal und seiner Familie wird nicht ausreichen", sagte Doyle. "Die Agentur hat den Namen dieses guten Beamten herabgesetzt und seine Anstellung ohne Grund weggenommen."
The New York Times - 10.Febr.2021https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/h ... ccine.htmlThe Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired.
Ten doses of the Covid-19 vaccine would expire within hours, so a Houston doctor gave it to people with medical conditions, including his wife. What followed was “the lowest moment in my life,” Dr. Hasan Gokal said.
“It’s very difficult not to feel sympathetic to the physician, and all the various steps he took in order to ensure the vaccine got into as many arms as possible,” Valerie Gutmann Koch, co-director of the University of Houston Law Center’s Health Law and Policy Institue.
....The Texas doctor had six hours. Now that a vial of Covid-19 vaccine had been opened on this late December night, he had to find 10 eligible people for its remaining doses before the precious medicine expired. In six hours.
Scrambling, the doctor made house calls and directed people to his home outside Houston. Some were acquaintances; others, strangers. A bed-bound nonagenarian. A woman in her 80s with dementia. A mother with a child who uses a ventilator.
After midnight, and with just minutes before the vaccine became unusable, the doctor, Hasan Gokal, gave the last dose to his wife, who has a pulmonary disease that leaves her short of breath.
For his actions, Dr. Gokal was fired from his government job and then charged with stealing 10 vaccine doses worth a total of $135 — a shun-worthy misdemeanor that sent his name and mug shot rocketing around the globe.
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..Tired and frustrated, Dr. Gokal said that he turned to his wife, whose pulmonary sarcoidosis made her eligible for the vaccine. “I didn’t intend to give this to you, but in a half-hour I’m going to have to dump this down the toilet,” he recalled telling her. “It’s as simple as that.”
He said his hesitant wife asked whether it was the right thing to do. “It makes perfect sense,” he said he answered.
With 15 minutes to spare, Dr. Gokal gave his wife the last Moderna dose.
The next morning, he said, he submitted the paperwork for the 10 people he had vaccinated the previous night, including his wife. He said he also informed his supervisor and colleagues of what he had done, and why.
Several days later, the doctor said, that supervisor and the human resources director summoned him to ask whether he had administered 10 doses outside of the scheduled event on Dec. 29. He said he had, in keeping with guidelines not to waste the vaccine — and was promptly fired.
....“We don’t want any doses wasted, period.”
With 15 minutes to spare, Dr. Gokal gave his wife the last Moderna dose.
The officials maintained that he had violated protocol and should have returned the remaining doses to the office or thrown them away, the doctor recalled. He also said that one of the officials startled him by questioning the lack of “equity” among those he had vaccinated.
Houston Chronicle - 26.Jan.2021
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/h ... 896405.phpHarris County judge dismisses vaccine theft charge against doctor, blasts DA for bringing the case
