114 kids given wrong vaccine instead of polio drops

At least 114 children were hospitalised in Hooghly district after they were mistakenly given Hepatitis B vaccine orally instead of pulse polio drops.

Six persons were suspended for the lapse that triggered protests with angry villagers locking up health workers.

Sunday was pulse polio day so parents had taken their children to the polio booth at the Khatul village under Arambagh sub-division, official sources said.

Source: The Hindu
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