BELOGIVAVI: Karnataka Government Health Workers have been suspended because of allegations of negligence in managing the vaccination of measles-rubella (MR), which resulted in the deaths of three young people last week in the Ramadurga Taluk from the District of Belagavi, about 500 km from Bengaluru.
The initial probe nurse helps midwives – or health workers – who are inoculated by children in HandiWadi centers do not take aseptic steps or sterile surgery, which lead to the tragedy.
Reproductive health workers and district children, Dr.
Ip Gadad, told Ti that one of the victims – a 10-month-old girl – died in a few hours of vaccination.
He first developed nausea, then began to vomit and die at 8pm.
Health workers call “unfortunate” death and say they occur because of “health worker negligence”.