Lampang’s Provincial Health Office and Lampang Hospital denied claims on Thursday made in Thai media that 40 people were experiencing moderate to severe side effects from the Sinovacs vaccine.
Several local newspaper had reported that 40 people were experiencing the side effects after being administered the vaccine at Lampang Hospital on Wednesday.
They said that 400 medical workers were waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital on Wednesday before they have found that 40 people have suffered side effects from the vaccines which led the hospital to halt vaccinations.
However, the staff at the hospital and Lampang Provincial Health Office told Thai Enquirer that the local news reports were not true.
“That was not what happened,” a nurse at Lampang Hospital’s covid department told Thai Enquirer by phone. “The report of 40 severe cases of side effects is not true.”
“There was only one severe case of side effects before we temporarily halted vaccinations on Wednesday,” an official at the Lampang Provincial Health Office’s covid department told Thai Enquirer. The province has since resumed its inoculation program on Thursday.
The health official told Thai Enquirer that there was only one case that required hospitalization and it was a 46-year-old woman who suffered from a stroke-like symptom 15 minutes after the injection.
She also said the majority of the remaining 39 side-effect cases have minor symptoms such as numbness or lack of strength of their limps, tighten chest and low blood pressure and all of them have recovered by themselves.
After receiving an injection to treat the stroke patient (IA rtPA), the 46-year-old woman recovered four hours afterward.
Lampang health office denies Thai media claims of 40 people suffering from severe Sinovacs side effects - Thai Enquirer