{"id":442678,"date":"2026-04-19T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/442678\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:40:13","slug":"nearly-e50m-worth-of-vaccines-destroyed-or-returned-unused-by-the-hse-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/442678\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly \u20ac50m worth of vaccines destroyed or returned unused by the HSE in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Discarded stock included jabs for infants, children and adults\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"More than 1.1 million doses of the Covid vaccine were disposed of\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218d548f-b74b-41b6-b6ea-9ce4bdc2927a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">More than 1.1 million doses of the Covid vaccine were disposed of<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than \u20ac48.5m worth of vaccines have been destroyed or returned unused by the HSE over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The health service said the unused stock included vaccines and nasal sprays for flu, Covid-19, and human papillomavirus (HPV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discarded stock included jabs for infants, children and adults More than 1.1 million doses of the Covid vaccine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[144790,3496,18,135,60,19,17],"class_list":["post-442678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-covid-inquiry","tag-department-of-health","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116429771732365730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}