Nine-member ‘adverse event following immunisation committee’ convened; samples of vaccine batch to be sent for testing
Following the deaths of two infants within 24 hours of receiving paediatric vaccines in Coimbatore, the Health Department has ordered all primary health centres (PHC) and anganwadis not to use the batch of vaccines administered on Wednesday.
Sources in the Department told The Hindu on Friday that the regular immunisation programmes will continue on Wednesdays in the district using other available batches of the vaccines. While the link between the vaccination and the two deaths has not been established yet, the Health Department has taken precautionary measures, sources said.
On Wednesday, two baby boys aged around two-and-a-half months were administered paediatric vaccines — Pentavalent, rotavirus vaccine (RVV) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) — at an anganwadi in Masakalipalayam near Singanallur and at an urban PHC in Sowripalayam. While the first baby was…