Last month, a woman who received a new coronavirus vaccine at a mass vaccination venue in Aisai City, Aichi Prefecture, died due to a sudden change in her condition immediately after vaccination. opened.
The committee will verify the cause of death and the response at the time, and will compile a report in about six months to a year.
On the 5th of last month, at the mass vaccination venue in Aisai City, Ayano Iioka (42), who received the 4th dose of the new corona vaccine, suddenly changed her condition after complaining of shortness of breath and died.
Aisai City established a "Medical Adverse Event Investigation Committee" consisting of six members, including outside doctors, nurses, and lawyers, to investigate the cause and prevent recurrence, and held its first meeting on the 29th.
After the meeting was closed to the public, Dr. Yoshimasa Nagao, deputy director of Nagoya University Hospital, who served as chairman of the committee, said, "What do we need to learn from this event so that Mr. Iioka's death will not be in vain?" I want to find out if there is
In the future, the committee will interview doctors, nurses, and government officials who were at the venue at the time of vaccination, as well as the bereaved families, to verify the cause of death and the response at the time, and compile a report in about six months to a year. and
Mr. Iioka's husband Eiji said, "I want you to conduct a fair and neutral investigation as to why her wife died and where the problem lies."