Baby dies after vaccination in Shirur

The parents later noticed that the boy was unwell and rushed him to a private hospital in Shikrapur. The baby was pronounced dead on arrival by the doctors at the hospital. The body was sent to Sassoon General hospital for postmortem.

Dr R D Shinde,taluka health officer,said that a team of health department of Zilla Parishad conducted check-up of all other babies who were vaccinated along with Harshal Jadhav. He said that all other babies were found to be in good state.

Meanwhile,district health officials have collected samples of the vaccines for conducting lab tests. About two months earlier,a baby had similarly died after vaccination at Bhamburde village in Shirur.