The National Health Security Office (NHSO) will expedite a compensation payment for a photographer who lost vision in her left eye after she received her first shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
NHSO secretary-general Jadet Thammathat-aree said the 37-year-old photographer, who works for a company, had appealed against an initial decision by an NHSO compensation subcommittee to give her 30,000 baht in compensation.
The complainant received the Covid-19 vaccine on Aug 18 and began to have pain in both eyes on Aug 28.
On Sept 10, she had blurred vision in both eyes and decided to seek treatment at a hospital, Dr Jadet said.
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan found nothing suspicious and doctors concluded the conditions were caused by optic nerve inflammation and gave her steroids for three days.
But the woman has now lost the vision in her left eye while her…
