Amid the concerns over the rising cases of COVID-19 across the world, the need for booster vaccination doses has also increased at a rapid speed. While many countries are yet to get their second dose of Covid vaccines, an 84-year-old man from Bihar has claimed to have taken 11 shots of Covid vaccines.
The man has been identified as Brahmadev Mandal who is a resident of Orai village of Puraini police station under Udakishunganj sub-division of Madhepura district and was caught before he could take his 12th dose.
He took 11 doses as the vaccines had beneficial effects on him, said Mandal. “I benefitted a lot from the vaccine. This is why I have been taking it repeatedly,” he said. It has been ordered by the civil surgeon of the Madhepura district that this matter must be thoroughly investigated to find out how he managed to take so many shots.
Mandal is a retired postal department employee. He stated that he took his first shot for COVID-19 on February 13 last year and between February 13 and December 30, he took 11 doses at a Public Health Centre. He has even noted down the place, date and time when the shots were administered to him.
First dose: February 13, at the old PHC,
Second dose: March 13, at the old PHC again
Third dose: May 19, at the Aurai sub-healthcare centre
Fourth dose: June 16, at a camp
Fifth dose: July 24, at the Badi Haat School camp
Sixth dose: August 31, at the Nathbaba camp
Seventh dose: September 11, at the Badi Haat School camp again
Eighth dose: September 22, at the Badi Haat School,
Ninth dose: September 24, at a health sub-centre in Kalasan
Tenth dose: Parvatta in Khagaria district
Eleventh dose: at Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur
Appealing to everyone to get vaccinated, Mandal said, “The government has made a wonderful thing [vaccine].”
Bihar: 84-year-old Brahamdev Mandal, a resident of the Puraini area of Madhepura district, claims that he has taken 11 doses of Covid vaccine
“I never fell ill since I started taking the vaccine and my health has started to improve,” says Brahamdev pic.twitter.com/A23E690A4W
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This bizarre incident has raised so many questions on the system that how can a person get vaccinated so many times. Mandal had allegedly submitted his Aadhaar card and his phone number on eight times and used his voter ID card and his wife’s phone number on the other three.
It has been claimed by the health department that the healthcare infrastructure can be cheated at the offline camps. They said that the Aadhaar card and phone numbers are collected at the camps and later fed into the database. Moreover, there are many times when the details are rejected if they are found to have been recurring. This may allow people to evade the system. An official said “This is why the data on the computer and that on the offline register differ sometimes.”
Madhepura district Civil Surgeon Amarendra Pratap Shahi said that an inquiry will be launched to probe how Mandal had managed to evade the authorities so many times. He has sought detailed reports from the officials of the PHCs and camps.
