Now it turns out that one of the public school students given the swine flu vaccine without parental consent had to go to the emergency room after getting sick. Six-year-old Nikiyah Torres, who suffers from epilepsy (her parents had been waiting to see what their family doctor said about the swine flu vaccine) told WCBS 2, “He just gave me the needle, without asking me what is my name.”

The little girl told the Daily News, “My stomach was hurting, and I was itching,” and was taken to the hospital from her school, PS 335 in Brooklyn. According to the News, “When the nurse called for a student Thursday morning, Nikiyah’s teacher misunderstood and sent the wrong student, [NIkyah's mother Naomi] Troy said. The error was compounded when the nurse didn’t check Nikiyah’s name before sticking her in the shoulder.”

When the nurse realized what happened, the school called Troy to appear—and the nurse asked her to sign the consent form even though the shot was already given to her daughter. Troy fumed to WCBS 2, “He knew he was in big trouble and he wanted to cover himself.”

The News also reports that a third child was given the swine flu vaccine without consent, prompting the nurses’ union to say “I told you so” because it had warned about problems with making school nurses responsible for this: “We don’t like it when we’re right, because usually when we’re right someone does get hurt somewhere along the way.”

Source/Full Story:  Gothamist

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