A five month old boy who was administered DPT (polio vaccine) in a village near Ambikapur died on Wednesday.
State Immunisation Officer SK Pandey however denied vaccination as cause of death when contacted. “They boy was administered DPT drop in Indergaon located about 15 km from Ambikapur district headquarter Surguja on Tuesday between 12 and 1 o’clock. The boy according to his parents was well during the night and was found dead on Wednesday morning,” Dr Pandey said.
According to Dr Pandey some blood stains were also spotted in the nostril of the boy. “If something was wrong with the vaccine then the reaction would be evident within an hour or at maximum two hours. Other children were also administered vaccine of same batch but nothing wrong was seen in them,” he claimed.
Over the question of reason of death of the boy, Dr Pandey said that parents of the children have refused to perform post-mortem of boy so the reason of death was still uncertain.