Measles vaccination in Jodhpur suspended
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25/04/2008
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Hindu (New Delhi)
In the wake of the casualties of children reported from Tiruvalluvar district of Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan Government on Friday suspended the administration of measles vaccine in Jodhpur division of the State. The vaccine stocks, which reached there three days back, belong to the same source as of the Tamil Nadu, where it had resulted in four deaths. "We have done it as an act of abundant caution,' Kiran Soni Gupta, Divisional Commissioner, Jodhpur said talking to this correspondent on phone. "There has not been any complaint from any part of the division,' she added. "The company which supplied the vaccine to Tamil Nadu is our source as well but the batch is to be verified.' In all 50,000 vials containing the vaccine have been withdrawn by the State Heath Department after the TN developments. Some of the stocks have gone to the border district of Barmer and the neighbouring Jalore. The Joint Director (Health), C.P.Mathur, said instructions have been given out to the persons concerned in the districts of Barmer and Jalore to make sure that the vaccine, already dispatched to the far-flung areas, does not get administered.