According to Salem County Prosecutor John T. Lenahan, the matter is being reviewed in response to an audit and subsequent investigation that disclosed that five children received wrong medication at the Salem County Department of Health and Social Services Shots for Tots clinic. Operations at the clinic have been suspended.
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A health clinic in Salem County has been closed down after being accused of giving the wrong vaccines to several South Jersey children, including injecting a 2-year-old boy with a high dose of a Gardasil, a cervical cancer vaccine. During a yearly audit, officials looked at 22 patient records.
Salem County has agreed to pay for medical monitoring costs for the children “for the foreseeable future until their medical status may be determined to a reasonable degree of medical certainty”, NJ.com reported.
Additionally, a one-year-old baby was given the FluMist flu vaccine at the Shots for Tots clinic.
In addition, it has been found that two full-time nurses who ran the clinic Mandi Cassidy and Nikole Johnson resigned from the health department, county officials confirmed. “And you got to step up to the plate, and you have to make sure somebody’s not harmed further”, Michael Mulligan stated.
The audit of the clinic’s records also found that $20,000 worth of vaccines were not properly refrigerated and had to be thrown away.
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The county has shut down the clinic, which served the uninsured.
