A 21-day-old child died after being administered polio drop at a polio booth under Pattamundai block in Kendrapada districton Sunday.
Suprava Sethy of Kathiapada village took her sick son to the polio booth at the Kathiapada ME School. The child died after some minutes of taking polio drops. The family members took the child to the Pattamundai Community Health Centre, where doctors declared the child brought dead.
The mother lodged an FIR at the Pattamundai Police Station alleging that an ASHA Worker, Satyabhama Mahakuda, of the village had asked her to bring her child to the booth for administering of polio drop.
When she reached there, the ASHA Worker said there was no harm in providing pulse polio to the sick child.
Kendrapada CDMO Binayak Prusty has directed ADMO (F and W) Satyabrata Chottray to order a probe into the incident. The Pattamundai police seized the dead body of the child and sent it to the Ali CHC for autopsy.
Pattamundai CHC Medical Officer In-Charge Dr Nirakar Parida has been asked to conduct an inquiry into the case and submit a detailed report within 24 hours. Parida said that as per the preliminary report, the child was suffering from septicaemia.