India: Deaths post-vaccine raise alarm at rights groups
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Cheena Kapoor | 08.02.2021
NEW DELHI
Patient rights groups and India?s Health Ministry are at odds over the deaths of 23 people who received the locally manufactured COVID-19 vaccination.
All the deaths occurred within a few days of receiving the Covishield vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.
Although the government has so far ruled out any connection between the sudden deaths and the vaccine, the Campaign for Dignified and Affordable Healthcare (CDAH) has pointed to what it calls an uncanny similarity between the fatalities.
?The government is not in a position to rule out relatedness of the deaths to vaccination as yet, since causality assessment has not been completed in most of the cases,? Malini Aisola of the group told Anadolu Agency on Monday.
She added that most of the deaths appear to have occurred due to heart attack/stroke. All the cases need to be investigated thoroughly in order to rule out any medical conditions leading to deaths post vaccination...
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