85-day-old child dies hours after vaccination

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TIRUNELVELI: An 85-day old boy died hours after he received the

second dose of oral polio vaccine and DPT vaccine at the Alangulam

Primary Health Centre on Wednesday.

 

According to Anantharaj and Vasantha of Kidaarakulam, they took their

son A.P. Selvam to the PHC, where the vaccine was administered at

11.30 a.m. as per the records. The boy, after being vaccinated,

developed breathing trouble, and they took him to the PHC again. As

per PHC records, the child was brought in at 1:40 p.m. frothing at

the mouth. The PHC doctors referred the boy to the Tirunelveli

Medical College Hospital. He died in the evening.

 

Deputy Director (Health Services), Sankarankovil, Shanmugasundaram

said though 54 other children were administered the DPT vaccine on

Wednesday, only Selvam developed breathing trouble. Nine other

children had received their shots from the same vial that was used on

Selvam. The body has been sent for post-mortem.

of Public Health S. Elango said it was unlikely that death

was caused due to vaccination, considering that no other child was

affected. The post-mortem results would reveal the cause of death.

Dr. Shanmugasundaram said he suspected that the baby was fed in a

wrong position by the mother since milk was flowing from his nose

even as he was rushed to the hospital. " Milk aspiration " could have

caused the death.