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Two kids die after getting pentavalent vaccine in Tamil Nadu | Coimbatore News

Representative image COIMBATORE: Two infants died within hours of being administered the pentavalent and rotavirus vaccines in Coimbatore on Wednesday. The state health secretary and immunization experts said vaccination was unlikely to be the cause of the deaths. The children, both boys aged two-and-a half months, were vaccinated at different places. One child was vaccinated with 13 others at an anganwadi at Masakalipalayam in Coimbatore around 10.30am on Wednesday. He was declared dead a couple of hours later, after he was hospitalised with breathing problems. The second child was given pentavalent, rotavirus and polio vaccines on Wednesday morning at the Sowripalayam PHC. In a complaint to the police, the first child’s mother, Vijayalakshmi, 24, said,”The vaccination was done by the nurse at the anganwadi. But when we returned home, the child kept crying and refused to breastfeed, after which I administered four drops of the syrup given to me at the anganwadi. However, t

Two infants die within 24 hours of vaccination in Coimbatore

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