Nurse who misplaced job but to use for monetary help over antagonistic COVID-19 vaccine results: MOH

SINGAPORE: The nurse who lost her job after getting a severe reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine is but to use for the Vaccine Harm Monetary Help Programme (VIFAP), the Ministry of Well being (MOH) stated on Wednesday (Jan 25).

In a response to CNA’s queries, the ministry stated it has “reached out to her to verify if she want to submit an utility”.

The scheme gives “one-time goodwill monetary help” to people who skilled critical unintended effects which are assessed by a health care provider to be associated to COVID-19 vaccines administered underneath the Nationwide Vaccine Programme in Singapore.

This consists of the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty vaccine, Moderna/Spikevax vaccine and Novavax/Nuvaxovid vaccine. Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccinations are additionally eligible if acquired from Oct 23, 2021.

Singaporeans, everlasting residents or long-term move holders who’ve been really useful to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine are eligible for the payout. 

CLOSE TO S$1.9 MILLION IN VIFAP PAYOUTS

 

In its assertion, MOH added as of Dec 31, 2022, 413 purposes have acquired payouts underneath the VIFAP, with a complete of S$1,895,000 paid out or supplied to candidates.

Of those, the ministry stated three candidates have been supplied a S$225,000 payout underneath Tier 1, which is prolonged to people who’ve died or turn into completely disabled.

“All VIFAP purposes shall be reviewed by an impartial medical panel,” added MOH. “To qualify for VIFAP, the medical panel will need to have assessed {that a} critical aspect impact occurred that’s associated to the COVID-19 vaccine acquired.”

Those that require admission to excessive dependency or intensive care, with subsequent restoration, will obtain S$10,000 underneath Tier 2, whereas those that require inpatient hospitalisation, with subsequent restoration will get S$2,000 underneath Tier 3.

Earlier this month, a Excessive Courtroom ruling said that the girl suffered a extreme antagonistic response to her second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine in March 2021, following which she was hospitalised for 151 days.

She was identified with Involuntary Motion Dysfunction, leaving her wheelchair-bound and unable to renew her job as a nurse at Singapore Basic Hospital.