The HSE has apologised to and compensated a 13-year-old girl who was given a Covid-19 vaccination with an already used needle.
Barrister James Cross told Judge Fiona O'Sullivan in the Circuit Civil Court today that Ella Mockler Mulhern, now within six weeks of her 18th birthday, had suffered significantly as a result of the HSE’s negligence and breach of duty.
Mr Cross, who appeared with James McSweeney Solicitors, Tallaght, for Ella, said when she attended a vaccination centre in Citywest Hotel in Dublin, in August 2021, she was given a vaccination with a needle the nurse had already used on one of three other people.
Ella's father Niall Mulhern, of Beech Park, Lucan, Co Dublin, told the court in written evidence that a second vaccination was then administered without discussion with and the consent of either himself or his daughter.
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