Child dies after vaccination

Lucknow, 18 September 2017: A one-and-a-half month old girl child died at a Lucknow hospital on Wednesday, hours after being vaccinated against polio and other diseases, the Hindustan Times reported. The child’s family said that she had no illness when she was taken to the Veerangana Avantibai Hospital where she was given her first doses of the oral polio vaccine, the injectable polio vaccine and the pentavalent for protection against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B. She child and her family left the hospital after the immunisation. However, her father brought her back about two hours later when the doctors at the paediatric ward examined her and declared her dead. Doctors at the hospital have contended that the same vaccines had been given to other children who did not suffer any adverse effects. However, the vaccine bottles used to immunise the infant who died have been sealed and will possibly be sent to a laboratory in Kasauli for examination. The child’s body has been sent for a post-mortem examination. Source: Scroll.in Posted by : Hira Ekkeri