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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Vaccination step after 85 deaths by Sumi Sukanya

Vaccination step after 85 deaths by Sumi Sukanya

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published Published on Nov 22, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 22, 2011

The state government has sought technical advice and assistance on its proposed plan to carry out mass vaccination ahead of monsoon next year in Gaya and adjoining districts to stop outbreak of Japanese encephalitis and acute encephalitis syndrome.

Sanjay Kumar, the secretary of the state health department, said the state was keen on going for a mass immunisation and regular immunisation for Japanese encephalitis as a preventive measure next year. “We have sought the advice and assistance from the Union government in this matter. The proposal is awaiting clearance by a technical committee formed by the Centre,” he told The Telegraph.

Sources in the department said a group of ministers and officials from the health, social welfare and finance ministries met in the national capital today on the initiation of Prime Minister’s Office in Delhi to discuss the possibility of setting up a rehabilitation centre at Gaya for the kids who have survived the disease but are suffering from severe neuro-psychiatric disabilities.

Of about 253 children discharged from Anugrah Narayan Medical College and Hospital (ANMCH) after recovering from the disease, most are suffering from severe mental and physical disabilities as aftermath of the disease.

Sources in the department said a five-member experts’ team consisting of senior doctors and scientists from Delhi, Pune and Gaya met with health department principal secretary Amarjeet Sinha today and submitted their primary report prepared after carrying out inspections and study at ANMCH and villages from where the outbreak was reported.

The team, sent by the Centre, was at Gaya for three days from November 17. The experts also collected samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid of various patients for specialised diagnosis at National Institute of Virology, Pune.

In its report, sources said, the team hailed the efforts of the doctors at ANMCH in managing and treating the patients but pulled up the state government for failing to provide adequate infrastructure, resources and personnel to handle an emergency situation like this.

Fresh admission

A child suspected to be suffering from acute encephalitis syndrome was admitted to ANMCH today. Doctors said clinically the patient — a nine-year-old boy from Barachatti block at Gaya where 14 people died of malaria recently — seemed to be suffering from cerebral malaria, a type of acute encephalitis syndrome.

“Clinical examination suggests that the patient suffers from cerebral malaria but we are waiting for diagnostic results to confirm it,” said Dr Ajoy Kumar Ravi, the head of the paediatrics department, ANMCH.


The Telegraph, 22 November, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111122/jsp/bihar/story_14783068.jsp


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