2012-05-22

Poor 2-Year-Old Karnataka Girl Loses Arm To Vaccine Mania

Doctors in private and public hospitals are under great pressure to move stocks of vaccines. While there is no money to buy medicines or maintain hygiene at many hospitals, there is plenty of money for vaccines. Anyone visiting a hospital these days will get a pitch for a vaccine. If you try to get a stitch for a cut, they will give you a anti-tetanus vaccine. All woman and girls are urged to take HPV vaccines. As for children, there is no limit. In all cases, the vaccines are given without any tests for adverse reactions.

In yesterday’s Times of India, there is a report of a poor girl who lost her hand to gangrene, caused by an adverse reaction to the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine. The parents of the girl had gone to the doctor with the original complaint of just mild fever and fatigue.