Doc fired for not wasting vaccine

The New York Times published an article about a doctor who was fired for vaccinating people instead of wasting vaccine. To quote the article:

"...he had to find 10 eligible people for its remaining doses before the precious medicine expired. In six hours...Scrambling, the doctor made house calls and directed people to his home outside Houston. Some were acquaintances; others, strangers. A bed-bound nonagenarian. A woman in her 80s with dementia. A mother with a child who uses a ventilator. After midnight, and with just minutes before the vaccine became unusable, the doctor, Hasan Gokal, gave the last dose to his wife, who has a pulmonary disease that leaves her short of breath.
For his actions, Dr. Gokal was fired from his government job and then charged with stealing 10 vaccine doses worth a total of $135 — a shun-worthy misdemeanor that sent his name and mug shot rocketing around the globe.
“It was my world coming down,” Dr. Gokal said..."

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That's right: he was fired from a job that paid less than what had been making and charged for "stealing" the vaccine! 

I was stunned when I read the article. Read the whole article here: 
​https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/us/houston-doctor-fired-covid-vaccine.html#commentsContainer

I wrote a letter to the Acting Executive Director of the Harris County Health Department and faxed it to her. Fax # 713.439.6080

There is no email contact given. I posted the text of the letter on their Facebook page: ​https://www.facebook.com/HarrisCountyPublicHealth

​Here's the letter. You're welcome to copy, personalize the letter and fax and post it. Send them something! Let's try and get this doc re-hired.

​Gwen Sims, Med, RD, LD
Interim Executive Director
Harris County Public Health
Office of the Executive Director
2223 West Loop South
Houston, TX 77027
 
Re: The dismissal of Hasan Gokal, M.D.
 
February 4, 2021
 
Dear Director Sims:
 
Thank you for what must be hard work in dealing with this pandemic, but I believe you have made a serious error in the dismissal of Hasan Gokal, M.D. Firing this doctor because he vaccinated 10 deserving patients to prevent the loss of precious COVID vaccine was simply wrong. It was irresponsible of your organization in the face of this pandemic. The fact that Dr. Gokal is from Pakistan makes his dismissal sound a lot like racism.
 
From the New York Times article published on the web, it appears that such an issue had no precedent in your organization. If you do not have protocols in place to deal with incidents of this sort you must create such conventions.
 
I urge you to reinstate Dr. Gokal. 

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