Six children fall ill after taking measles vaccines

MHOW: Six children had to be admitted to the Mhow civil hospital on Wednesday afternoon after they were administered measles vaccines on the school premises.

An auxiliary nursing midwife (ANM) of Kodariya village of Mhow tehsil, accompanied by an anganwadi worker, had gone to the Vivekanand School to administer the measles vaccine to the school students.

When they were administering the vaccine to the sixth student, the first student, on which it was administered earlier, fainted. Within minutes, the others also turned restless.

School administration then rushed them to Mhow civil hospital.

Two of them were admitted while others were taken to a private hospital for treatment. School teacher Kirti Chouhan told TOI that the children admitted in the civil hospital were Banti, son of Ram Singh, 6 and Ayushi, daughter of Hari Singh, 5. Dr Sanjay Jain, who treated the children, told TOI that the vaccine probably had some toxic substance in it.

However, all the children were out of danger, Dr Jain informed.