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QUEBEC - An investigation is underway in Quebec after two nurses were found to have taken doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine home to vaccinate family members.
The North Shore health agency said the information came to light Friday and the investigation would in part serve to determine whether other nurses there were responsible for similar actions.
"The fact there are priority groups to respect . . . this caused concern, as well as the fact that vaccines were taken out and brought home, that's not what they're supposed to do," said Pascal Paradis, spokesman for the North Shore health agency - which covers areas north of the St. Lawrence in eastern Quebec.
Paradis said he expected the investigation to clear up the "who, how and what" of the incident, and address possible sanctions, in the following days.
"I wouldn't want to lay the blame on nurses, who are doing what they can and are working very hard in vaccination clinics, but what's certain is that this is an unacceptable situation which we deplore," Sandra Morin, a spokeswoman from the agency, told the French-language news channel LCN.
Morin said the nurses have received a verbal warning.
A spokeswoman for Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc referred to the minister's weekend news conference in which he described the incident as "unacceptable and regrettable."
The North Shore health agency said the information came to light Friday and the investigation would in part serve to determine whether other nurses there were responsible for similar actions.
"The fact there are priority groups to respect . . . this caused concern, as well as the fact that vaccines were taken out and brought home, that's not what they're supposed to do," said Pascal Paradis, spokesman for the North Shore health agency - which covers areas north of the St. Lawrence in eastern Quebec.
Paradis said he expected the investigation to clear up the "who, how and what" of the incident, and address possible sanctions, in the following days.
"I wouldn't want to lay the blame on nurses, who are doing what they can and are working very hard in vaccination clinics, but what's certain is that this is an unacceptable situation which we deplore," Sandra Morin, a spokeswoman from the agency, told the French-language news channel LCN.
Morin said the nurses have received a verbal warning.
A spokeswoman for Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc referred to the minister's weekend news conference in which he described the incident as "unacceptable and regrettable."
