Officials here are to hold an emergency meeting after it emerged that three primary health centers in Tabuk allegedly injected 11 children with expired measles and hepatitis vaccines. Sources said that Dr. Abdul Fatah Bin Ibrahim Sindi, Director of the Directorate of Health Affairs in Tabuk, has called for an urgent meeting with officials in charge of the centers. The Stores Control Administration discovered the incident during an inspection of five health centers in Beni Zaid, Therban, Kayyad, Al-Sho'ab and Al-Maqass. The inspection team found 200 doses of outdated vaccines at these centers. At the Al-Sho'ab center the team found 114 doses of expired vaccines. It found 14 liquid measles vaccine and 40 expired doses of measles vaccine at the Therban health center; and eight doses of hepatitis vaccine unfit for human consumption at the Kayyad health center.
