ISLAMABAD: “If I knew that we would be pleading for my child’s life, I would have never immunised him,” said Mian Said, whose two-year-old son, Umer, has been at the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) for the last two weeks along with dozens of other children affected by measles.
LRH has seen a surge in cases of Adverse Effect Following Immunisation (AEFI) across Peshawar, while many more have been reported in all of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Many children who have been ‘successfully’ vaccinated first faint and then become unwell. Some have even died.
“My son fainted immediately after getting vaccinated,” said Said.
“The lady health workers left the house after seeing my child’s condition worsening. They did not even provide any emergency treatment.”
He has never immunised his children in the past. Now he vows to never do it in the future.
During the measles campaign, three children – Hilal, Rida and Abdul Samad –died reportedly due to the vaccination. In Charsadda, three children named Mazhar, Sabeen and Faizan, also died similarly. And the parents blame the vaccine.
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