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Four Children Die of Anti-measles Vaccine in Southern India
Preliminary inquiries revealed that vials were transported from the central government drug store in Chennai to the public health centres in the district last week. They were then taken to the immunisation camps on Wednesday.
Public health joint director M Sarala said the vials distributed in both the places were of the same batch and manufactured by a Human Biologicals Institute, a Hyderabad-based laboratory, in February. The expiry date was shown as year 2010. She maintained that the cold chain was not broken.
The village health nurses and nursing assistants first vaccinated pregnant women and then turned to babies.
Each vial of vaccine contains five doses of 0.5 cc each. At the Pennalurpettai centre, doses were administered to three babies from the same vial. All the three died. About 130 vials of the same batch were distributed across the district and 252 children were immunised, but no complication was reported from other centres. Immunisation of 78 other children in the district using vaccines manufactured by another laboratory went incident-free.
The Union health ministry also said it would examine the entire batch of measles vaccine procured from the Hyderabad-based laboratory. The injectible measles vaccine, which provides 85% protection, is administered only once — when a child is nine-month-old. Officials saidthey wanted to check the vaccine’s efficacy and safety in order to ascertain whether the deaths occurred due to a break in the cold chain or because the vaccines were contaminated.
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have to come into picture and do the needfull.
Govt should take the responsiblility for this issue and solve it as soon as possible.All are running for making money,but this should not happen again.Can any one give back the child to their parents.All doctors
should know that they too have children and grand children. So some thing should be done to sort out these kind of issues.