Row over TMC chief administering Covid vaccine at Asansol camp

A Trinamool Congress chief administered COVID-19 vaccine to a lady at a vaccination camp in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district on Saturday,stirring a row.
The incident occurred within the Sitarampur village in Kulti.
Tabassum Ara, the previous deputy mayor of the Asansol Municipal Corporation, took the syringe containing the vaccine from a well being employee and administered it to at least one Rubiya Mahato.
Later, when questioned by reporters, Ara mentioned that she did no such factor on the vaccination camp.
As a video of her administering the vaccine went viral, she mentioned that she was serving to to boost consciousness about vaccination.

TMC’s manhandling of the lives of individuals is aware of no bounds..A non-medical official, TMC’s Tabassum Ara, member of administrative board of AMC, selected to vaccinate the folks herself, regardless of docs and nurses being current there… Is she even medically authorised to take action? pic.twitter.com/3WSFqKw6hE
— Agnimitra Paul Official (@paulagnimitra1) July 3, 2021
“I had no other intention, but to raise the awareness among the people. I have good knowledge about how to push insulin and this is quite similar to that,” she advised PTI.
The state Health Department has sought an in depth report from the district’s chief medical officer over the incident.
“We have asked the CMOH to file a detailed report. He has been asked how a non-medical person was allowed to administer the jab. This is a punishable offence,” a Health Department official mentioned.

Hitting out on the ruling TMC, Union minister Babul Supriyo mentioned that it appeared as if the state authorities has no management over its directors.
“TMC’s Tabassum Ara, a member of the administrative body of AMC, has vaccinated people herself and risked hundreds of lives… Will her political colour shield her from stern punishment?” the BJP’s Asansol MP tweeted, tagging Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh additionally slammed the TMC over the incident.
“In a state where the chief minister knows everything — from Engineering to Medicine — it is in the fitness of things that her party members would also think in the same way. These acts show the real picture of the state,” he mentioned.
TMC’s deputy chief in Rajya Sabha Sukhendu Sekhar Roy mentioned the district administration was wanting into the matter.

“However, in our country quacks with no formal medical education are allowed to perform medical duty and in that context administering a vaccine by someone who does it to create awareness should not be dissected so much,” he mentioned.
“But again, if I inject something to build awareness, the basic condition is I should know the medical procedure, I should know the process, I should have done such thing earlier,” Roy mentioned.