Karnataka: Four children die after Hepatitis vaccination

[Ronan Kelly]

Three children die after Hepatitis vaccination
STAFF WRITER 15:23 HRS IST
Hospet (Kar), Aug 9 (PTI) Three children today died following complications allegedly after they were administered Hepatitis B vaccine at a local hospital, police said.

Activists of an NGO administered the vaccine to 24 children yesterday and of them 15 developed complications like vomiting and fever.
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[Emily]

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Three children die after Hepatitis vaccination
Press Trust of India / Hospet (Kar) August 09, 2012, 15:35

Hospet Taluk Assistant Commissioner D R Ashok Kumar banned the activities of the private NGO and directed it not to continue with the vaccination programme till further orders.

Tourism Minister Anand Singh ordered an inquiry into the deaths and announced Rs 50,000 compensation to each of the bereaved families.

No mention of what the 'private NGO' is. Rs 50,000 = 906.62 in U.S. dollars.

 

[Ronan Kelly]

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Two toddlers die after being ?vaccinated?
J Abbas Mulla, TNN | Aug 10, 2012, 06.50AM IST
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On Wednesday, under a special drive about 120 children were vaccinated in Hospet by Arunodaya Poirada, an NGO of P K Halli of Bellary district. They were administered Hepatitis-B and DPT vaccines by trained workers who go door-to-door under the routine immunisation programme.Speaking to TOI, Dadapeer, father of Sohana, said that they got her vaccinated on Wednesday afternoon. By evening she fell ill and started vomiting and was passing loose stools. They immediately shifted her to a government hospital, but the doctors refused to treat her. Dadapeer later shifted Sohana to a nearby private hospital. The doctors told the family that she was critical and suggested that she be shifted to a specialist hospital. However, by then Sohana had died.

Soon after Sandhya , a neighbour of Sohana in Rajajinagar, too died after being vaccinated. Dr B Jambayya, Hospet taluk health officer, said: "If death is due to the vaccinations, the symptoms will be different. If kids react to drugs there will be rashes, fever. But they will not vomit or pass loose stools as was in the case of Sohana and Sandhya.''
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[Ronan Kelly]

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Child dies after being given Hepatitis B vaccine
STAFF WRITER 19:43 HRS IST
Sirsi (Karnataka), Aug 10 (PTI) One more child died today due to suspected complications following administering of Hepatitis B vaccine at a local hospital, taking the toll to four in similar cases in Karnataka in the last two days.
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