VHI chief steps aside amid board investigation into his vaccination at Beacon Hospital

Health insurer has launched a review to ‘establish the facts’ after learning that John O’Dwyer received a Covid-19 vaccine at the private hospital

VHI said in a statement that its board will begin an investigation after it learned that John O’Dwyer, its chief executive, had been administered a vaccine at the Beacon Hospital. Picture: Rollingnews.ie

John O’Dwyer, the chief executive of the VHI, will step aside from his role pending an investigation after it emerged he received a Covid-19 vaccine at the Beacon Hospital.

VHI said in a statement this evening that its board will begin an investigation after it learned this morning that O’Dwyer, 63, had been administered a vaccine at the private hospital in Sandyford in Dublin.

The story, first reported by the Irish Daily Mail, said O’Dwyer ...