This annual report of WHO’s work between July 2019 and June 2020, was finalized four months after the COVID-19 pandemic first arrived in the WHO African Region. Over the past year, WHO country offices, emergency hubs, inter country support teams and the Regional Office for Africa, with the support of …
Hyderabad, June 1: The Core Committee on Vaccines has finally decided that children will be given two doses of measles vaccine to protect them from the infectious disease. Though the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been insisting on two doses for some time, the Central government had, till date, preferred …
Pune Two Thousand children have been involved in a WHO project at KEM Hospital to develop an intra-nasal vaccine that can be administered through a nebulizer. After the success of the Phase 1 clinical trial, Serum Institute of India Limited and National Institute of Virology (NIV) are working on the …
Public health professionals are worried about the increasingly vocal anti-vaccination lobby in the USA and other western countries and their effect on immunisations globally. .
The State Government today admitted in the Assembly that four children died and as many were taken seriously ill in Damoh district when they developed complications after being administered anti-measles vaccination and negligence of two women health workers has come to fore in the matter. Replying to a call attention …
Bhopal: Union health ministry has rushed a team of vaccination experts to investigate the death of four infants in Damoh town in north Madhya Pradesh. Twenty infants below the age of two years were administered tetanus and antimeasles vaccine in two anganwadi centres on Friday. Four of these children, aged …
The four children who were administered an anti-measles shot died due to mishandling of the vaccine by the health worker, says a four-member team sent by the Union Health Ministry to Madhya Pradesh on Monday to inquire into the deaths. While the team
The State Congress has alleged that the BJP State Government should be held responsible for the deaths of children in the Chhatarpur and Damoh districts after being administered measles vaccine. The party has alleged that these incidents were the outcome of bad practices of corrupt officials as they had purchased …
Bhopal: Four infants aged below two years died and 17 children fell ill after they were administered an anti-measles and tetanus vaccine at Anganwadi centres in Damoh town, in Madhya Pradesh. Around 20 infants were administered the vaccine at two Anganwadi centres in Damoh on Friday afternoon. By Sunday afternoon, …
BHOPAL, March 14: There was complete breakdown of supervisory mechanism and the protocol for administering anti-measles vaccine was blown to the wind leading to the death of four infants in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh within a few hours of being vaccinated on Saturday. The children who have died are …
Nurse, other officials suspended for negligence Bhopal: Four babies died and 16 were taken ill after being administered anti-measles shots at a government health centre in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district on Saturday, officials said on Sunday. A nurse has been arrested on charges of negligence and two others suspended.
A NEW vaccine, a dry powder that can be inhaled directly into the lungs, has offered hope of saving about 10 per cent of the nearly two lakh children who die of measles and related complications in India every year. The new vaccine, developed by Robert Sievers of Colorado University, …
Pune Measles and related complications claim the lives of nearly two lakh children a year in India. Now, a new inhalable vaccine, in the form of dry powder, has been developed and the city-based Serum Institute of India will conduct its human trials. Dr SS Jadhav, executive director of Serum …
Human Trials For Inhalable Dose To Begin In India Next Year New Delhi: A single deep breath could soon vaccinate a child against measles. Next year, India will start human trials of a measles vaccine that will not require a syringe. Instead, a single long breath will deliver the vaccine …
The closure of all the three government-run vaccine manufacturing units in the country in January 2008 has had a major implication on the immunisation programme of the country in 2008-2009. Not only has there been a shortfall of vaccine, the government target achieved has been far less than what was …
Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private vaccine makers boomeranged. The health ministry was forced to get vaccines illegally from the very public sector manufacturers it suspended last year Shuvam Kumar …
