Girl dies from vaccination
A girl who was among the group of students admitted to the Matara hospital following vaccination against Rubella died this morning. Another 26 schoolgirls still remain in hospital. Peshala Hansala (12) who was in Grade eight of Matara St.Thomas Girls School, met with her tragic death in the early hours this morning, hospital sources confirmed.
Arrangements were made yesterday to immunise about 300 schoolgirls and several of them had taken ill after the vaccination.
President orders investigation and compensation
President Mahinda Rajapakse has called for an immediate investigation into the death of the school girl in Matara due to the Rubella vaccine and to find those responsible. He has also directed the relevant authorities to pay Rs. 500,000 as compensation to the parents.
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Posted By: Shan
A precious child is worth just 500,000 rupees? The parents should drag the entire health ministry to courts and they should be punished for their negligence.
Posted By: christine abeywickrema
SO what about the girl killed in Trinco.NO compensation for her family?
Posted By: kumar
A Child is a Child. A daughter is a daughter. I do not think any one can compensate a child by providing money. I suppose we can not compensate even a new born. That love, affection, presence..how? HOW? WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IS TO PREVENT RECURRENCE & PREVENT THE INVESTIGATION FROM BEING PUT UNDER THE CARPET
Posted By: Helasebala
Mr.President thanks for your prompt action. but the sad news is who can bring back the life of that girl?
Posted By: NmN-abudhabi
Good... Y not do the same in killing of 6yr old girl in Trinco?
Posted By: Karti
Surely, this is not the first time a life is lost due to the follies of our Health Authorities. Finding those responsible would be like finding a needle in a haystack which contains many other needles as well !
Posted By: SOME
Investigations are jokes..... must take preventive measures.. how can anybody trust the health sector
Posted By: ash
Has he ordered anything about the murder of the little girl from Trincomalee.
Posted By: Shantha
Its very shame. Poor procurement & storage system may cause this situation. Most corrupted & inefficient dept are education & health. GMOA must highlight the correct picture
Posted By: Yehiya-Doha
Mr President why do you have double standard? This is a simple example that Tamils would not get justice under any Sinhala regime. You have not said a single word of innocent children killed by the shelling of the army. How do you expect Tamil people to trust and support you?
Posted By: Nesan
Where is Health care Quality Assurance?Every body will blame every body and after 14 days this will be history.
Posted By: Anton Edema
Sir, you are very generous. How ever you children subjects in north of the country are also getting killed in cross fire. Say some kind words that you care. They don't need money from you sir.
Posted By: Randeniya
Those found responsible should be given a white van visit!!!
Posted By: Vithanaga
What a statement to make .. investigate and pay compensation. Sounds very easy. Health Minister should resign forthwith.
Posted By: D Ariy
The test confirmed the vaccine is not safe. mission accomplished. the real story is that our children are merely the lab rats for western medical research groups. they just test those in Sri Lankan 'test subjects' before before being commissioned for their "precious" children. having a human trial is the safest way to be sure so our school girls die for western kids. hope the president understands this.
Posted By: Rajitha
Hey Mr President, please pay attention who authorized to import this drug from this company or country and whether this vaccine manufacturer is having a certification for quility standed from "World Health Organization" to manufacture similler type of "Vaccines" like this.Furthe to that I think it is completely useless to appoint a man who has no any knowledge relating to "Health Field" as the "Boss" of this field.I beg you to make a check up of other medicines in stock to make sure they are also outdated or out of quality, because a human life cannot value with rupees and cents.
Posted By: GameMinihekAmerikawen
In procurement at least 20% commission goesn to all "Fatty goose". So generally whatever procured are substandard quality medicines. So "fatty goose" has taken another life in Matara. Everyday people are slaughtered in Mullaithevu. If any one talk about this truth it is considered as terrorism.
Posted By: azmeer
hello Medical counsel ? Are you looking at this matter ? or maintaining the mafia propaganda to maintain the income of your doctors.
Posted By: shai
This death is very unfortunate. A proper inquiry is needed. How ever we all must be responsible when commenting on this. The immunization programme in Sri Lanka is envy of most of the world and saves thousands of lives. Erosion of confidence in the programme by adverse reporting will lead people refusing immunization which will lead severe repercussions.
Posted By: Dr Prasad
After death what compensation? if you govern the country properly these things will not happen
Posted By: Carrlos
What is it that the president has to always order investigations and actions for various things? What are the other hundred and one plus ministers doing?
Posted By: David
I think Most of you have got it wrong. Rubella vaccination is for saving lives. But we need to know that ANY medication has complications. So we need to find out what happened, but not stop the vaccination. We are far behind developed countries and we need to go forward ! not back wards.
Posted By: Chaminda
You should ask the relevant ministers to take the responsibility and resign from the post. Otherwise what is the point of having a president for the country
Posted By: jayanatha
The death of any child whether by rubella vaccine or violence and whether in Matara or Trincomalee is a devastating tragedy to the parents and affects us all in the country. No amount of words of sympathy will help the parents; it is a great loss that has to be suffered. Nevertheless from such a death, we must improve so that the chances of it happening again are minimised. First, the rubella vaccine (German measles) is an effective vaccine. 300,000 teenaged girls have been vaccinated and this would have prevented at least 5 children from being born in the future with the congenital Rubella syndrome (deaf, heart defects and partly blind). Therefore the vaccine itself is not at fault. We now turn onto giving the vaccine itself – was it done according to standard good practices? If so, this simply maybe a tragic statistic – vaccines, drugs are never 100% safe and there will be the inevitable tragedy due to the very very small risk involved. If the vaccine was not given according to good practice (vaccine was not stored properly, disposable one-use-only syringes were not used, the child was ill and should not have been given the vaccine), then whoever was responsible must be held to account. Vaccine quality needs to be checked – were the standard tests done? The reports must be made available. There are experts probing it now – the examination must be open and transparent and not a “home and home” affair of the experts and Ministry. There must be knowledgeable outsiders (representative from College of Paediatricians who are not from the Ministry of Health) in the team to give it credibility. The final report must be made public – it cannot be selectively quoted in parliament to support one viewpoint. The public should demand that the report be made available – there can be no justification for confidentiality. A child has died and nothing can bring her back; neither should anything in the death be labelled confidential. Making wild allegations in 1-2 sentences by interested parties (some from health too) dishonours this death. This is how we can learn from this death and prevent future deaths – that is how we move forward.
Posted By: HealthSpectator
First and foremost the donor nations should investigate the amount of funds,mostly hard currencies stolen from people and stacked up in foreign banks.
Posted By: Tom sazm
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Arrangements were made yesterday to immunise about 300 schoolgirls and several of them had taken ill after the vaccination.
President orders investigation and compensation
Related:
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Immunization programme suspended - Susil[/FONT]
Girl dies from vaccination
[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Girls sick after vaccinations[/FONT]
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People who die in Matar treated different people who die in Mankulam treated different...
A precious child is worth just 500,000 rupees? The parents should drag the entire health ministry to courts and they should be punished for their negligence.
SO what about the girl killed in Trinco.NO compensation for her family?
A Child is a Child. A daughter is a daughter. I do not think any one can compensate a child by providing money. I suppose we can not compensate even a new born. That love, affection, presence..how? HOW? WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IS TO PREVENT RECURRENCE & PREVENT THE INVESTIGATION FROM BEING PUT UNDER THE CARPET
Mr.President thanks for your prompt action. but the sad news is who can bring back the life of that girl?
Good... Y not do the same in killing of 6yr old girl in Trinco?
Surely, this is not the first time a life is lost due to the follies of our Health Authorities. Finding those responsible would be like finding a needle in a haystack which contains many other needles as well !
Investigations are jokes..... must take preventive measures.. how can anybody trust the health sector
Has he ordered anything about the murder of the little girl from Trincomalee.
Its very shame. Poor procurement & storage system may cause this situation. Most corrupted & inefficient dept are education & health. GMOA must highlight the correct picture
Mr President why do you have double standard? This is a simple example that Tamils would not get justice under any Sinhala regime. You have not said a single word of innocent children killed by the shelling of the army. How do you expect Tamil people to trust and support you?
Where is Health care Quality Assurance?Every body will blame every body and after 14 days this will be history.
Sir, you are very generous. How ever you children subjects in north of the country are also getting killed in cross fire. Say some kind words that you care. They don't need money from you sir.
Those found responsible should be given a white van visit!!!
What a statement to make .. investigate and pay compensation. Sounds very easy. Health Minister should resign forthwith.
The test confirmed the vaccine is not safe. mission accomplished. the real story is that our children are merely the lab rats for western medical research groups. they just test those in Sri Lankan 'test subjects' before before being commissioned for their "precious" children. having a human trial is the safest way to be sure so our school girls die for western kids. hope the president understands this.
Hey Mr President, please pay attention who authorized to import this drug from this company or country and whether this vaccine manufacturer is having a certification for quility standed from "World Health Organization" to manufacture similler type of "Vaccines" like this.Furthe to that I think it is completely useless to appoint a man who has no any knowledge relating to "Health Field" as the "Boss" of this field.I beg you to make a check up of other medicines in stock to make sure they are also outdated or out of quality, because a human life cannot value with rupees and cents.
In procurement at least 20% commission goesn to all "Fatty goose". So generally whatever procured are substandard quality medicines. So "fatty goose" has taken another life in Matara. Everyday people are slaughtered in Mullaithevu. If any one talk about this truth it is considered as terrorism.
hello Medical counsel ? Are you looking at this matter ? or maintaining the mafia propaganda to maintain the income of your doctors.
This death is very unfortunate. A proper inquiry is needed. How ever we all must be responsible when commenting on this. The immunization programme in Sri Lanka is envy of most of the world and saves thousands of lives. Erosion of confidence in the programme by adverse reporting will lead people refusing immunization which will lead severe repercussions.
After death what compensation? if you govern the country properly these things will not happen
What is it that the president has to always order investigations and actions for various things? What are the other hundred and one plus ministers doing?
I think Most of you have got it wrong. Rubella vaccination is for saving lives. But we need to know that ANY medication has complications. So we need to find out what happened, but not stop the vaccination. We are far behind developed countries and we need to go forward ! not back wards.
You should ask the relevant ministers to take the responsibility and resign from the post. Otherwise what is the point of having a president for the country
The death of any child whether by rubella vaccine or violence and whether in Matara or Trincomalee is a devastating tragedy to the parents and affects us all in the country. No amount of words of sympathy will help the parents; it is a great loss that has to be suffered. Nevertheless from such a death, we must improve so that the chances of it happening again are minimised. First, the rubella vaccine (German measles) is an effective vaccine. 300,000 teenaged girls have been vaccinated and this would have prevented at least 5 children from being born in the future with the congenital Rubella syndrome (deaf, heart defects and partly blind). Therefore the vaccine itself is not at fault. We now turn onto giving the vaccine itself – was it done according to standard good practices? If so, this simply maybe a tragic statistic – vaccines, drugs are never 100% safe and there will be the inevitable tragedy due to the very very small risk involved. If the vaccine was not given according to good practice (vaccine was not stored properly, disposable one-use-only syringes were not used, the child was ill and should not have been given the vaccine), then whoever was responsible must be held to account. Vaccine quality needs to be checked – were the standard tests done? The reports must be made available. There are experts probing it now – the examination must be open and transparent and not a “home and home” affair of the experts and Ministry. There must be knowledgeable outsiders (representative from College of Paediatricians who are not from the Ministry of Health) in the team to give it credibility. The final report must be made public – it cannot be selectively quoted in parliament to support one viewpoint. The public should demand that the report be made available – there can be no justification for confidentiality. A child has died and nothing can bring her back; neither should anything in the death be labelled confidential. Making wild allegations in 1-2 sentences by interested parties (some from health too) dishonours this death. This is how we can learn from this death and prevent future deaths – that is how we move forward.
First and foremost the donor nations should investigate the amount of funds,mostly hard currencies stolen from people and stacked up in foreign banks.
http://www.dailymirror.lk
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