nA state-level committee will probe the death of an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) who died two days after getting a corona vaccine shot in Raipur, the Health Department said on Monday.
“The 34-year-old ASI died on February 14 and was administered the vaccine on February 12. He was rushed to a private hospital with chest pain. Doctors at the hospital declared him dead,” Chhattisgarh Immunization Officer Dr Amar Singh Thakur said in a press release.
"We have not received the final post mortem report. At first heart attack appears to be the cause of death. The post-mortem report will be examined by an AEFI (Adverse Events Following Immunization) committee in detail who will then give the exact reason for the death, he said.
The ASI’s post-mortem was performed at Dr BR Ambedkar Memorial Hospital here.
Dr Nirmal Verma, who heads the AEFI committee and is head of department (HoD) Medicine at Pt Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in Raipur, said detailed information has been sought from CMHO Raipur.
Generally, a post-mortem is performed by a person but in this case a team of experts has done it, Dr Verma said.
The state-level AEFI committee consists of doctors and representatives of IMA and UNICEF. The committee probes any adverse event following any immunization.