The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notice to the State Health Secretary seeking a report on the death of four babies in Dhenkanal district within eight weeks.
Basing on a news report published in an Odia daily, the complainant Sangita Swain, secretary of Human Rights Watch has lodged a complaint with the NHRC seeking its intervention into the matter on November 6.
Acting on the complaint, the commission has issued notice on December 6.
The complainant alleged that four babies died after taking pulse polio drops and DPT Hepatitis on November 6 in Hindol and Sadar blocks of Dhenkanal district. While a three-month-old baby of Jayant Nayak of Barsinga village under Hindoal block and 28-days-old baby of Rasmita Nayak on Jhumpuria village under Sadar block died after taking polio drops at a free polio camp held at Barsinga High Scholl, two twin babies of 28 days of Satia Behera of Jhumpuria village under Sadar block on November 6.