Delhi: July 24, 2010
The Union health ministry came close to putting the lives of lakhs of children in danger by considering procurement of 274 lakh doses of BCG vaccine which were well past their expiry date. A note from the vaccine procurement cell of the ministry, a copy of which is with TOI, shows that the ministry was either ignorant of its own previous decisions or dangerously careless while dealing with children’s vaccination. Sixty million children are given BCG vaccine every year across the country to prevent tuberculosis.
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The Union health ministry came close to putting the lives of lakhs of children in danger by considering procurement of 274 lakh doses of BCG vaccine which were well past their expiry date. A note from the vaccine procurement cell of the ministry, a copy of which is with TOI, shows that the ministry was either ignorant of its own previous decisions or dangerously careless while dealing with children’s vaccination. Sixty million children are given BCG vaccine every year across the country to prevent tuberculosis.
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