Image: Sasko Lazarov Image: Sasko Lazarov THE CEO OF VHI has stepped aside pending an investigation into his receipt of a Covid-19 vaccine at the Beacon Hospital.
“The Board is commencing an investigation to establish the facts. While the investigation is ongoing John O’Dwyer has offered to step aside as CEO and the Board has agreed to this,” it said.The Beacon Hospital has been at the centre of a controversy after it was revealed that private school teachers and creche workers were vaccinated out of step with the Government’s vaccine priority list.
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The man had very bad cancer he needed the vaccine unlike the Gerards teachers and everyone is going at him just because of his pay check and I guarantee you , if those 20 vaccines were given to a public school there would be no backlash at all
Right and proper, it’s a pity the guy in the Beacon couldn’t do the same thing
Frontline CEO Worker just has to pick up the phone to his Frontline CEO of a Hospital mate to get a vaccine. Seems fair. I'm sure he was doing as much for the public as a teacher, or a Garda, or a carer, or an SNA.
Steps aside on full pay, get to fuck.
Doing the right thing, when under investigation one should stand aside.
The poor man has cancer and by sounds of things it’s terminal, let’s cut him a bit slack eh? Typical media though.
Doesn’t he have cancer ? I don’t begrudge him the vaccine .