The female trainee cops at New Civil Hospital in Surat
SURAT: Twelve trainee female police constables in Surat and 16 female cops from the Vadodara city police headquarters complained of side-effects late on Sunday night after they had been administered the first dose of vaccine in the early hours of the day in the second phase of Covid-19 vaccination programme.
While the Surat cops, living in accommodation provided by the police department at police headquarters, complained of fever and other health issues at night and were admitted in New Civil Hospital (NCH), the Vadodara cops along with two safari workers of the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) too had to be taken to hospitals on Monday with similar complaints of headache, giddiness, dizziness, mild fever.
VADODARA/HYDERABAD: A 30-year-old Gujarat sanitation worker with a suspected cardiac condition died within hours of getting a Covid-19 vaccine shot on Sunday while a 55-year-old health worker in Telangana who had taken ill on the 10th day since her vaccination succumbed to what health officials termed “underlying co-morbidities”. In both cases, which took the number of people dying in India post-vaccination to 12, family members blamed alleged side-effects of the Covishield vaccine for the deaths.
In Vadodara, municipal corporation employee Jignesh Solanki’s health deteriorated rapidly after he was forced to take the vaccine at his workplace, his brother Ganesh alleged. He was taken to SSG Hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. “He became unconscious three to four hours after the vaccine was administered. Had there been any reaction due to the vaccine, it would have happened within the first 30 minutes,” Dr Ranjan Aiyer, superintendent of SSG Hospital, said
Officials said the sanitation worker might have died due to a heart attack as he had a history of heart disease since 2016 and was not taking medicines
Gujarat: Sanitation worker dies hours after getting COVID-19 vaccine
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Last Updated: Jan 31, 2021, 10:35 PM IST
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While the family members of the deceased said they suspect that the COVID-19 vaccine was the reason behind his sudden death, officials said he might have died due to a heart attack as he had a history of heart disease since 2016 and was not taking medicines.
New York Times The patient had a history of heart disease since 2016. His heart was weak, but he was not taking medicines, as his relatives told us, he said.
Ahmedabad: A 30-year-old sanitation worker died around two hours after being administered a coronavirus vaccine in Gujarat s Vadodara on Sunday, following which authorities ordered a postmortem to ascertain the exact cause of his death, officials said.