Letter to Health Secretary, Orissa, on the HPV Vaccine.

[Guest guest]

To

Ms Anu Garg

Secretary Health

Govt of Orissa

 

DT: 31.12.2008

 

Madam,

 

Sub: Indian doctors warn against controversial vaccine Gardasil.

 

The

recently introduced vaccine against cervical cancer, Gardasil, was

opposed by me during its launch in Pedicon 2007, the annual conference

of the IAP, held at Janta Maidan, Bhubaneswar.

 

I had pointed out

to the eminent doctors present and to Dr Swati Bhave, past President of

IAP, that the vaccine had caused a series of adverse effects including

paralysis and deaths when it was introduced in the USA and Australia. I

had informed that the vaccine contained 250 mcg of aluminum per shot,

the recommended three doses would administer 750 mcg of this heavy

metal, that it consisted of a genetically modified virus whose safety

has never been studied, that it targeted a few viruses in a multi-viral

scenario which would make the other viruses more active, that it was

targeted at young girls who may not be able to tolerate it, and that it

did not treat cervical cancer as claimed and there is no study that

proves it prevents cancer.

 

Dr

Bhave could not really answer my questions, rather she ended up

admitting that the vaccine did cause after effects which was

¨¨normal¨¨. She had earlier warned that the controversial nature of

this vaccine would cause opposition in India. Dr S K Agarwal who was

chairing the session requested me not to voice my opinion in the forum.

Later I was threatened by a few honourable doctors not to pursue the

issue further.

 

However the vaccine continues to create havoc and

now Indian doctors and pediatricians have pointed out that this vaccine

has also been allowed into the country without the mandatory local

tests and permission, besides dwelling on the other points raised by me in the

Pedicon.

 

I

would therefore request you to kindly issue a circular forbidding the

private practitioners from advertising, recommending and administering

this vaccine.

 

I do not remotely hope that such a circular would

have any effect, the price of the vaccine would certainly lure highly

unethical and reckless doctors to prescribe this vaccine, but still it

would give us an opportunity to help the affected children and ladies

get justice by appealing to the higher authorities. They have after

all, as Dr Pushpa Bhargava noted medical scientist, consoled me at a

private meeting, ¨¨the licence to kill¨¨.

 

I ardently hope that you will take appropriate action on the matter.

 

Wish you a very happy new year 2009. Let us

hope that children under threat from vaccines would be our prime concern in the

new year.

 

Yours faithfully,

Jagannath Chatterjee

1181/2146 Ratnakar Bag - 2

Tankapani Road

Bhubaneswar.

 

For Information:

1. Hon´ble Chief Minister, Orissa

2. Hon´ble Health Minister, Orissa

 

 

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