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Pakistan: Former special assistant to the prime minister on health feels 'furious' that COVID-19 vaccines are being given to influentials
Islamabad: Former special assistant to the prime minister on health Dr Zafar Mirza has said he felt 'furious' that COVID-19 vaccines were given to influentials at the cost of frontline health workers.
He made the remark while reacting a The News International released report on the issue.
Mirza tweeted: "As a citizen I am furious that COVID vaccines are being given to influentials at the cost of frontline health workers. Anyone, from whichever political party & however rich, who has received the vaccine against the policy."
<386> As a citizen I am furious that COVID vaccines are being given to influentials at the cost of frontline health workers. Anyone, from whichever political party & however rich, who has received the vaccine against the policy تو اُن کے لئے شرم سے ڈوب مرنے کا مقام ہے۔
— Zafar Mirza (@zfrmrza) February 8, 2021
Wide scale irregularities in administration of vaccination in Sindh have come to the forefront, including administering the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine to people over 60 years of age, non frontline health workers and totally unrelated people, sources confirmed to The News International.
The incident being widely reported in media regarding the administration of the Sinopharm vaccine on Saturday to the daughter and son-in-law of the former Sindh Governor and the spokesman for PML Vice President Maryam Safdar, Mohammad Zubair. The couple were administered the vaccine on Feb 6, at the Adult Vaccination Center of Ojha campus of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), by a deputy district officer of the District East. The former governor’s daughter also happens to be the niece of the head of National Command and Operation Center, Federal Minister Asad Umar. The PML-N leader has categorically denied any connection to the administration of vaccines to his daughter and son-in-law, the newspaper reported
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