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. According to reports, father of the child Jagseer Singh, a resident of Roopanwali village in this district, was waiting for the bus to Fatehabad with his family members at the Kulan bus stand, when a team of the Health Department approached him and asked whether their eight months old child had been administered polio drops. When Jagseer Singh replied in negative, the health official administered him polio drops from a vial. The condition of the child, according to eyewitnesses, started deteriorating within few minutes of taking the polio drops. The parents rushed the child to the community health centre (CHC) situated at Kulan, but doctors declared him dead. Dr A.P. Sodhi, deputy director, Health Services, Haryana, who is nodal officer of the district for pulse polio, however, maintained that the child was suffering from pneumonia for few days. He said parents of the child were going to some doctor for the treatment of the child and were waiting for bus when his team accosted the family for giving polio drops to the kid. He maintained that the child died of illness and not because of the polio drops. He, however, added that the vial from which polio drops were given to the child has been sealed and would be sent for testing.