Team blames handling of vaccine for kid deaths

A high-level team probing the recent deaths of infants in Gujarat says the children may have died because of wrong handling of measles vaccines.

In their preliminary report,experts from the Union Health Ministry and the National Centre for Disease Control have pointed to an error in the programme as reason behind the deaths.

Four infants died,allegedly after they were administered measles vaccine at Gandhidham in Kutch district of Gujarat during Malnutrition Assessment and Monitoring to Act earlier this month.

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The infants,all of them nearly 10 months old,died a few minutes after they were administered the vaccine. While the first death was reported from an anganwadi,three other children died at Rambaug Hospital.

Though the experts will wait for results of samples sent to the Central Drug Laboratory,Kolkata,they have ruled out a possibility of toxic shock syndrome which usually happens in such cases.

We are sure the deaths could not have happened due to the toxic shock syndrome. Initial investigations show there could be an error in the programme, said a team member on condition of anonymity.

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