-The Hindu Global health body worried about immunisation levels New Delhi: Despite immunisation being one of the most successful and cost-effective means to help children grow into healthy adults, worldwide 12.9 million infants — nearly 1 in 10 — did not receive any vaccination in 2016. The figures released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) during the ongoing immunisation week added that this means infants missed the first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine...
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Lack of Public Data, Rising Costs and Availability of Drugs Ail India's Immunization Project -Swati Dey
-News18.com While India has been able to marginally reduce the infants infected from diphtheria, Tetanus and Measles, the cases of Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, Pertussis and Diarrhoea have only magnified. Forty years after immunization was introduced for the first time in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed representatives from 54 countries at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) and cited the renamed Mission Indradhanush—it aims to immunize all children under the...
More »diphtheria still killing kids in Delhi, ignorance feeding the monster
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The death of 14 children in two Delhi hospitals — 13 at Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Diseases (MVID) Hospital in north Delhi and one at Lok Nayak hospital in central Delhi — due to diphtheria over the past few weeks has once again exposed the shortcomings of India’s immunisation programme. diphtheria, an acute infectious disease, is preventable with vaccine. However, due to the low coverage and lack of...
More »Govt washes hands off vaccine deaths
-DNA Of 132 AEFI cases, only 78 babies survived and 54 died, a Union Health Ministry report says A string of deaths has put a question mark on the safety of India's child vaccination programme. And the central government seems to be washing its hands of these post-vaccination casualties. In December last year, 45-day-old baby girl Aarohi Bajgude died in Maharashtra's Beed district, three hours after receiving the dose of Pentavalent vaccine....
More »The fallacies of the faithful -Rajeev GR
-The Hindu Why are children in Kerala’s Muslim-dominated Kozhikode and Malappuram districts dying of diphtheria? Propaganda by orthodox Muslim community leaders and alternative medicine practitioners that vaccination is un-Islamic is the main cause, reports Rajeev G.R. Her years of clinical experience had not prepared her for that damp, rainy night when death lingered in the air inside the operation theatre. As Mohammad Afzaz (14) desperately gasped for air, he told her, “You...
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