[efoods]The Federal Government’s plan to immunise the population against swine flu is in chaos because doctors’ insurers may not cover them to administer the jab, saying inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading other infections mean there is too high a risk that patients will sue them later.

Despite weeks of crisis talks, the Government has refused to underwrite doctors’ liability for the vaccinations, and medical groups say the program – due to start as early as mid-September – cannot proceed unless doctors are insured.

Andrew Pesce, president of the Australian Medical Association, said ”the indemnity issue needs to be sorted out or else the vaccination program won’t go ahead”.

”In the environment we’re in, someone has to be held accountable for rare vaccine reactions that may occur … if the Government decides there is a priority need to roll out the vaccine, then it has a duty to indemnify the doctors who provide it,” he said.

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