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THIRD LARGEST FINE IN HIA HISTORY

Former AHS employee fined for falsifying COVID-19 vaccination records

Dec 20, 2024 | 9:51 AM

A former employee of Alberta Health Services (AHS) has been fined $12,000 for falsifying COVID-19 immunization records of nearly 200 people from September 3, 2021 to November 24, 2021.

Hind Mahmoud Dabash was employed in an administrative support staff role with AHS when he knowingly used and created health information, a contravention of the Health Information Act (HIA).

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) opened an offence investigation into the matter in June 2023 after AHS submitted a report of a breach to the OIPC. Following the investigation, in March 2024, Dabash was charged by OIPC.

On Nov. 19, Dabash pled guilty to the charge of knowingly using and creating health information of 199 members of the public in contravention of the HIA. The other charge, of knowingly gaining access to to the health information of 199 members of the public, was withdrawn.

Justice Mah of the Alberta Court of Justice sentenced Dabash to a fine of $12,000, the third largest fine in the history of the HIA.

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The false information created by Dabash was entered into the Meditech health information system, which then feeds into Alberta Health’s ImmARI (Immunization and Adverse Reaction to Immunization) system, which is the provincial repository for records of all provincially-funded and privately-purchased vaccines, OIPC officials say.