VHI CEO Steps Aside After Receiving Covid Vaccine At Beacon Hospital

The CEO of the VHI has stepped aside while the board of the company investigates how he received a Covid vaccine at the Beacon Hospital in Dublin.

In a statement the Board says it learned this morning that John O'Dwyer, received the jab for Covid 19.

The Board says with Mr O'Dwyer's consent, it can disclose he has been a patient of the Beacon Hospital and St James's Hospital for oesophageal cancer.

Declan Moran has been appointed Acting CEO.

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