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Child dies after being given polio drops

In what could prove to be a setback to the pulse polio campaign in this district, an infant died after he was administered polio drops at Kulan today. However, the health authorities, while admitting that polio drops were administered to the victim, have maintained that the child died due to pneumonia. The authorities have begun investigation in to the matter and sealed the vial from which the polio drops were administered to him.

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