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India public heath demands investigation after 19 deaths
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19 health workers dead after COVID-19
vaccination; health experts demand
investigation
The COXTD-19 vaccination drive was kicked off on January 16 in India. Since then, at
least 19 health workers have died post-vaccination. Doctors and public health experts
write to the health ministry, demanding an investigation into the deaths.
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ASHA worker dies after
Covid booster shot in
Telangana
Express News Service ; Published: 28th February 2021
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Sanitation worker dies a day
after vaccination in Andhra
Pradesh
Express News Service | Published: 11th February 2021
On February 1, 47-year-old Mannu Pahan, a health worker from Ranchi in
Jharkhand, died within 48 hours after being vaccinated against COVID-19. He died
at the Medanta Hospital and his body has been sent for a post mortem.
Pahan is one of the 19 health workers in the country to lose his life after receiving
the COVID-19 vaccination since the launch of COVID-19 immunisation drive on
January 16.
While the government has denied any connection between the deaths and the
vaccine, die country's public health officials, wrote to the Union ministry of healdi
and family welfare on January 31, raising questions and demanding an immediate
investigation into the deaths.
The letter also demanded that the minutes of AEFI committees formed at the
national, state and district levels on adverse incidents arising post-vaccination, be
made public. The letter drew attention to several facts: the death of health workers
has occurred within a few hours to up to five days after taking COVID-19 vaccine;
the deceased were aged between 23 and 56 years; media reports highlighted
cardiovascular problems or brain trauma as the cause behind each of the deaths;
"So far, most of the cases of COVID-19 vaccine deaths have reportedly been due to
cardiovascular and brain trauma. All these groups need to be examined
immediately so that, at least, the reasons behind it are known," Amar Jesani, an
independent consultant, researcher and teacher in bioethics and public health told
Gaou Connection. He is also editor of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, and one of the
signatories of the letter. Jesani urged that the investigations be made public so that
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Home North East India Manipur
Manipur Anganwadi worker
dies after taking Covishield
jab, had recovered from
-Asthma attack
Family sources said Sundari was
administered a shot of the
Covishield vaccine around 1pm on
February 12. Day after, she
complained of fever and allergies,
they said, adding that assuming that
she was experiencing normal side
effects, she took a medicine bought
from a local pharmacy.
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February 19. 2021 10:41:16 pm
English News India
INDIA
Frontline worker dies days
after receiving first COVID-
19 vaccine jab
The victim, who was working in the
state waterworks department in the
town, was discharged from the
hospital on Thursday after he
recovered from an adverse event
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56-year-old healthcare
worker in Odisha dies after
receiving second dose of
COVID-19 vaccination
Express News Service | Published: 22nd February 20