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3 detained over vaccine sickening 120 pupils
Three health workers have been detained over the vaccine accident which killed one child and sickened 120 others in Sixian County in east China's Anhui Province.
The three people are Zhou Shimin, director of Dazhuang TownshipHospital, Hou Huafeng, head of Dazhuang Town Health Care and Epidemic Prevention Station, and Zhou Shikai, a health worker who purchased the involved hepatitis A vaccines. Without official permission, the town epidemic prevention station organized village doctors to vaccinate about 2,500 students in 19 schools in 17 villages on June 16 and 17, accordingto local police. Several students reported dizziness, breath difficulties and limb numbness on the morning of June 17.
The town epidemic prevention station purchased 1,000 hepatitis A vaccines from county epidemic prevention center and 3,000 othersfrom a private medicine provider Zhang Peng, who has disappeared after the accident. Local police are still hunting for Zhang, and tracing down sources of the vaccines. The rest vaccines have been sealed, and the samples were sent to state
institution for test. A six-year-old girl died and at least 121 school children became sick after getting dubious vaccinations in eastern China's Anhui Province, a hospital source said Saturday. Without approval from local health and education departments, the epidemic prevention center in Dazhuang Town of Sixian County inoculated bacterin against hepatitis A to more than 2,500 children in 19 primary and middle schools on June 16 and 17. The girl named Li Wei died in a local hospital Thursday afternoon after contracting fever, diarrhea and twitch. Experts of the provincial sanitation department said at the end of an initial probe that the girl died of serious infection and respiration failure. Legal medical experts from the provincial medical institute dissected her body Friday afternoon but no outcome have been available so far. To console the girl's parents and other close relatives, the relevant local government departments in the county have reached an agreement to pay the girl's family l90,000 yuan (some 10,840 USdollars) in compensation. Other school kids, aged about seven to 14, are still undergo ingintensive medical care in hospital and 20 of them remain in critical condition, according to doctors. Pan Longgen, the physician-in-charge with the Sixian People's Hospital, said the ailing students' hearts and livers have been harmed to varying extent. But so far, there has been no effective way for treatment, he added. The bacterin has been sent to the Chinese Ministry of Public Health for
testing and the outcome is expected to be available in about 10 days.
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