The vaccine programme has become more complicated in the last few years, and more vaccines that have to be reconstituted have become commonplace in health facility fridges. At the same time, other programmes have increased the reach of their interventions to health facilities, and several therapeutic and preventative drugs are being stored in the health facility fridge.
These facts have resulted in the increased risk that vaccines are erroneously reconstituted with substances such as insulin, muscle relaxants or oxytocin, with inevitably fatal results for the infant being "vaccinated". If one had two fridges, the separation could be easily accomplished, but this is unlike to be the case in many facilities.
I would be interested to hear from the programmes how they are addressing this risk - what methods have you found to make sure this accidental and fatal problem does not occur?
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