Three clinics cleared after vaccine scare

Authorities cite sloppy bookkeeping, advance issuance of cards to patients

Three health clinics that faced online accusations of giving expired vaccines to patients in Shangluo, Shaanxi province, have been cleared, and authorities are blaming the panic on poor management and training.

The Shangluo city government said on Thursday that inspectors from the provincial health authority had visited the clinics - on Tongxin, Gongnong and Mingren streets - and checked 32,616 doses of 12 kinds of vaccines. All were within the expiration date, it said.