Anosh Ahmed, chief of operations at Loretto Hospital on the west side of Chicago, has resigned after reports revealed he had sent doses of vaccine to black, low-income, majority-neighborhood residents in considerably richer and whiter. people in Chicago, including Eric Trump.
Ahmed’s resignation was announced on Wednesday by Loretto, reports Washington Post.
His departure is coming after Block Club Chicago was also revealed that Ahmed would have organized the vaccination prevention of high-level personnel in a wealthy Chicago filet mill with the doses his hospital received from the city for black and brown residents living in a community disproportionately affected by the coronavirus.
The unpleasant story of Ahmed’s alleged blatant use of COVID-19 vaccines that the city had assigned to underserved Chicagoans was made public after the executive sent a photo presuming he had vaccinated Donald Trump’s son in an act of massive inoculation his hospital performed at the Trump Hotel. in downtown Chicago. Ahmed owns a $ 2.7 million apartment owned by Trump, according to the Washington Post.
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The Chicago Block Club reported for the first time that Loretto distributed vaccines to people from some of Chicago’s richest zip codes, although they were provided to the hospital specifically for the purpose of improving vaccination equity in a city. where residents of mostly black and brown communities are still left behind. far behind the whiter and richer residents in terms of coronavirus inoculation.
As the story continued to unfold, the Chicago Block Club reported that Loretto had provided vaccines to people at a luxury jewelry store on Chicago’s Gold Coast, where Ahmed was a frequent customer. The general manager of Loretto, a black man named Gregory Miller, was also found to have targeted the vaccines to more than 200 members of his church, located in a suburb miles away on the west side of Chicago. The hospital board previously said he had reprimanded Ahmed and Miller.
Meanwhile, the cThe city of Chicago has cut off the supply of COVID-19 vaccines from Loretto Hospital amid continued investigation into the controversy.