Daltonganj: Talks of Covid vaccinations to begin possibly in January-February 2021 is haunting the people of
Daltonganj who are yet to get over the memories of the Loinga village immunization mishap that took lives of four children in April 2018.
The deaths had raised a great public outrage then, leading to the suspension of Loinga ANM Droupadi Pandey while vials of the immunization vaccine, syringes and needles were sent outside Jharkhand for test. The reports, however, could not find anything suspicious.
A government doctor on anonymity said, “Till date, we do not know how the four kids died after their immunization.”
Palamu district reproductive child health officer Dr Anil Kumar Singh said the Covid-19
vaccination will be started with all care and preparations to handle it.
WHO is constantly warning against AEFI (adverse effect following immunization) of Covid-19 vaccination such as severe allergic reactions ranging from breathlessness to rashes and swellings on the body and major issues like cardiac malfunctioning and others.
Singh said the district healthcare unit is gearing up fast to deal with anaphylaxis which is an adverse effect of the immunization whose progression of physical distress and discomfort is pretty faster like odema, respiratory disorder, cardiac malfunctioning, lips drying up, eyelids drooping etc.
Singh said the best course at such a time of distress is to avoid panicking and allow doctors and nurses to do their work without bringing them under any pressure. He said emphatically there will be adequate anaphylaxis kits and AEFI kits ready to meet any adverse situation.
Senior doctor Anil Kumar Singh who is handling the immunization programmes of various scales since September 2018 said, “A person who has symptoms of adverse effects should lie laterally always and not eyes looking towards the roof as then oral secretion stands no chance to infiltrate the respiratory channel of the body in that posture.”
WHO is asking for a state-of-the-art observation room adjacent to Covid-19 vaccination sites with ready-to-use medical kits and experts to handle Covid-19 vaccinated person showing adverse effects.