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.

More than two decades after it was introduced in the National Immunisation Programme, the

Chennai, Nov. 1: When your child successfully gets over his bout of measles, don

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.

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.

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 straight into the child

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 envisioned.

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 lay on an iron cot in the tetanus ward of the Nalanda Medical College and Hospital

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To keep six contagious diseases at bay The programme

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