‘Alleged AEFI deaths not due to vaccine’
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Claim senior health officials, but do not specify why the two HCWs died
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Claim senior health officials, but do not specify why the two HCWs died
The recent deaths of two Telangana healthcare workers (HCWs) attributed to Adverse Event Following Immunisation (AEFI) were not due to COVID-19 vaccination, claimed senior officials of State Health department, quoting the findings of central labs which examples body samples of both. However, they did not specify the reason for the deaths.
In the first case, a 42-year-old male HCW who received the vaccine in Kuntala Primary Healthcare Centre, Nirmal, on January 19, died of a heart attack at around 2.30 a.m. the next day. He did not have any co-morbidities.
Coronavirus | Vaccinated health care worker dies in Telangana
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January 31, 2021 22:37 IST
Death indicative of underlying morbidities and not due to COVID-19 vaccination, says Director of Public Health.
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Telangana s Director of Public Health, Dr. G. Srinivasa Rao. File
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Death indicative of underlying morbidities and not due to COVID-19 vaccination, says Director of Public Health.
A 55-year-old female Healthcare Worker (HCW), who received COVID-19 vaccine in Macherial on January 19, has died on Saturday night after complaining of shortness of breath, giddiness. The State’s Director of Public Health G. Srinivasa Rao said that ‘the cause of death is clearly indicative of underlying morbidities and not due to COVID vaccination’.
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Days after being vaccinated for COVID-19, Bokka Vijayalakshmi, a 42-year-old Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) from Undavalli in Andhra Pradesh, died at the Government General Hospital (GGH) on Sunday. In Telangana, a 45-year-old female healthcare worker died, four days after receiving a vaccine.
Vijayalakshmi, along with other doctors and staff members, got the vaccine from the first vial at the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Tadepalli. Doctors said the woman might have died due to Thrombogenic Ischemic Demyelination, a brain stroke.
Ischemic Demyelination is a condition listed among those falling under Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI), but an investigation was being carried out by the State AEFI Committee.
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