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Girl crippled after tetanus vaccination
Always blame something else but the vaccine itself which is KNOWN to give
this reaction. ""It seems that the person who gave the vaccination wasn't competent," Iskandar said, adding that several things could have lead to Sinta's paralysis. "We could suspect that the substance injected was not the right vaccine, or the nurse gave an overdose, or that the vaccine had expired," he said." http://www.thejakartapost.com/detail...921.C03&irec=2 Girl crippled after tetanus vaccination Prodita Sabarini, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Nine-year-old Sinta Bela would like to be president of Indonesia when she grows up, or, failing that, a dangdut singer and dancer like Dewi Persik. The dreams of the youngest daughter of dumpling seller Ujang and laundry woman Nani, however, are looking dark, as she has been unable to move her legs for 10 months. In November last year, Sinta was vaccinated against tetanus at her private Islamic elementary school, SD Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Al-Huda, by paramedics from the Jatimulya health center in Bekasi. A day after the shot, part of the government's Student Vaccination Program, her legs started to feel weak. Eventually she was paralyzed. "If I could still move my legs, I could dance like Dewi Persik," she said while sitting in her brother's lap as the family waited in front of the Jakarta Police public service center. Believing their daughter's paralysis to be the result of malpractice on the part of Umi Ropido, the paramedic who administered the tetanus shot, Sinta's parents decided to report the matter to the police. On Wednesday, accompanied by a Legal Health Aid Institute (LBHK) representative, the family went to the Jakarta Police. Along with reporting Umi, they also told police they wanted school principal Jarkasih charged with negligence. "I want the ones responsible for my daughter's illness to take responsibility for their actions," Nani said. LBHK head Iskandar Sitorus said Ropido and Jarkasih were alleged to have violated the Indonesian Criminal Code and the 1999 Health Law. He said only people with the necessary experience should carry out student vaccinations. "It seems that the person who gave the vaccination wasn't competent," Iskandar said, adding that several things could have lead to Sinta's paralysis. "We could suspect that the substance injected was not the right vaccine, or the nurse gave an overdose, or that the vaccine had expired," he said. Neither Ropido nor Jarkasih were available to comment on the allegations. Nani said the principal had not announced the vaccinations beforehand. The day after Sinta received the shot, her mother said, she could not lift her legs or bend them. Nani said she had asked Jarkasih and the health center about what had happened but had not received a satisfactory explanation. She and her husband reported Jarkasih and Ropido to Bekasi Police in May this year, but the two were only charged with improper conduct. Sinta has been treated at several hospitals, including Cipto Mangunkusmo in Central Jakarta and Soekanto National Police Hospital in East Jakarta, but her condition has not improved. Nani said she had reported the case to National Commission for Child Protection before going to the LBHK, which took Sinta to Hasan Sadikan Hospital in Bandung in September. "They x-rayed me and I had therapy there," Sinta said. Her mother said that doctors at the hospital had said Sinta needed an operation, which Iskandar added the LBHK was attempting to schedule for next month. He said the doctors had indicated that Sinta could possibly be cured. Sinta, who has stopped going to school because of her illness, said she wanted to be able to walk again. "If I'm able to walk again, I want to go to school again, to go to Koran reading again, and I'll pursue my dream of becoming president or a dangdut singer," she said. |
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Girl crippled after tetanus vaccination
Scores Of Tsunami Survivors Dying Of Tetanus, Infections
From Patricia Doyle, PhD From ProMED-mail By Richard Spencer The Telegraph - UK 1-15-5 Scores of survivors of the tsunami are dying of tetanus, a rare but often deadly disease whose outbreak has caught health officials completely off guard. Deaths have been reported in Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, at either end of the Indonesian disaster zone in Sumatra. They are almost certainly being replicated in the cut-off towns and villages along the coast in between, say experts. Tetanus, once better known as lockjaw, has been almost wiped out in the West through childhood immunization and is now uncommon even in disaster areas. One doctor said this was the worst outbreak the world had seen in years. "I might have expected to see 1 case in my career," said Dr Charles Chan Johnson, from Singapore, who is working in Banda Aceh's general hospital, Zainal Abidin. "Now I have 20 patients in a single ward." Most had symptoms too far advanced to be treatable. "I am afraid nearly all these patients will die," he said. Immunization is regarded as the most important means of prevention because once symptoms appear the mortality rate is high. But in Sumatra primary health care was limited even before the tsunami which killed more than 100 000 Indonesians. Medical workers say the disaster provided perfect conditions for tetanus. Many people were injured by the debris the waves picked up, even if only with minor cuts, and ended up lying in the dirty water. Nevertheless, the number arriving at hospitals and field clinics with the classic "smile" of lockjaw has taken them by surprise. [The "smile" referred to is "risus sardonicus", a characteristic expression with a fixed grin and elevated eyebrows caused by spasm of the facial muscles produced most often by tetanus - Mod.LL] Workers had been on the lookout for cholera, dysentery and malaria, classic refugee-camp sicknesses, rather than tetanus. There have been 40 confirmed cases and 20 deaths in Banda Aceh, and 7 cases and 5 deaths in Meulaboh. But patients were still arriving at Zainal Abidin last night, and Meulaboh hospital is seeing several suspected cases every day. Officials have still not assessed the scale of the outbreak along the coast, where hundreds of thousands of survivors have fled. But workers there may not even know why people are falling sick, said Dr Tony Stewart, a consultant epidemiologist to WHO in Banda Aceh. "This is totally unprecedented," he added. "This is now a really rare disease." He had imported to Indonesia Australia's entire stock of specific tetanus immunoglobulin. It amounted to 15 vials, a sign of how few cases the West now suffers. Dr Johnson's ward is 1 of 3 which reopened on Tue, 11 Jan 2005, in the hospital, which was inundated by mud during the disaster. |
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