A woman has been admitted to the intensive care unit of Kiev city hospital No 4 several days after being vaccinated
A woman died in the capital of Ukraine shortly after receiving her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine from the American company Moderna. She was vaccinated on the same day on which she began to show symptoms of the disease. This was announced by the head of the National Medical Chamber of Ukraine, Serhiy Kravchenko.
According to him, the woman’s death was reported to him by infectious disease doctors from the infectious disease department of Kyiv City Hospital No. 4.
“It was to the intensive care unit of this hospital that the 50-year-old patient was admitted a few days after her vaccination. As it has now become known, she flew to Ukraine from Turkey on August 1, and already on August 5 she received her first shot with the Moderna vaccine”, – the report said.
According to Kravchenko, the case raises several questions. And the first of them is how to investigate this case in a situation when Moderna drug is not registered in Ukraine.
“There is a fatal case that coincided with the vaccination with Moderna vaccine, which is not registered in Ukraine and was brought into the country as an unregistered drug. A pharmaco-epidemiological investigation is needed. And there is a problem – how to do it? This vaccine is not registered, there is no dossier on it, there are no quality control methods and there is no approved instruction in the language available in Ukraine”, – Kravchenko said.
He suggested that the deceased had most likely contracted the coronavirus before the vaccination and the drug had nothing to do with it. But this is simply impossible – after all, a medical examination must be carried out before vaccination. This is stated in the order No 595 from the Ministry of Health.
“Apparently, the patient was vaccinated during the prodromal period. This is when the patient is already infected but has no clinical manifestations. So how was this patient vaccinated in the prodromal period? That is, her life history, medical history, and epidemiological history were not collected. No one even bothered to ask if she had been in an endemic area before. In Turkey, for example, where a strain of Delta is circulating”, – Kravchenko said indignantly.