for shoddy record-keeping during an earlier and previously unreported deployment to the province to administer COVID-19 vaccines, new interviews and records show.
Vitalité told The Globe that it wasn’t notified of the vaccination problems when it later signed three long-term contracts worth up to $198-million with CHL between July and December of 2022. “We were not informed of the situation you describe,” Vitalité said in an e-mail. After struggling as a provider of vaccinations, the company was then redirected to COVID-19 testing and helping in nursing homes, the former CHL officials and two former CHL nurses said in interviews.New Brunswick was in a dire situation at the time when CHL chief executive Bill Hennessey first contacted an associate deputy minister for health, via a Dec. 29, 2021, e-mail, to offer bilingual temporary workers.
“Contractual obligations required CHL to ensure employees it hired were competent in immunization practice,” Mr. Hatchard said. Mr. Hatchard told The Globe that a quality check of PHIS data found that “some information about dose or brand may be missing” because three CHL immunizers hadn’t properly filled out forms for 32 vaccine recipients.