A day after unfortunate death of four children at loinga village of Patan of Palamu, the Health department suspended the ANM Draupadi Pandey while the team of experts, in its preliminary report, said that the vaccine and the cold chain were up to set standard.
The probe report has said that the drug inspector of Palamu has seized the vaccine and syringes which were sent to CDl Kasauli and CDl Kolkata for further examination.
It is learnt that the five affected children were administered vaccination from the same vial. The used vials and others of the same batch have been collected for examination and report of that would be crucial.
The report quoting in details about the chain of events having taken place on the fateful day on Saturday when vaccination for measles, Japanese Encephalitis, DPT and tetanus was done at the village, claimed that all the doses were administered from the vial provided.
“ANM Kumari Draupadi Pandey told that she vaccinated 3 children with measles and JE at around 11 am and rest of the 10 children with measles and JE within 1 pm. ANM stayed at the session site till 2 pm on dated 07.04.2018.
“As per the logistic distribution from the CHC Patan it was revealed by the cold chain handler Ashrita Bara that 3 syringes of 5 ml, 55 syringes of 0.5 ml and 5 syringes of 0.1 ml were given to Harender Yadav, AVD, for this session and the same were handed over to Anganwadi centre at loinga by them,” says the report virtually ruling out any contamination or misplacement angle.
It also said that Praveen Kumar Singh, DPM Palamu, had captured the picture of the vaccine used at the village where date and time has been written on all the vials.
ANM Kumari Draupadi Pandey reached at outreach session site and started the immunization session around 10 am. On this session site following vaccine were administered as per the report submitted to the PHC- OPV 15 doses, Penta 03 doses, fIPV 3 doses, measles 13 doses, JE 13 doses, DPT 10 doses, TT 13 doses.