The truth about the girl who died from meningococcal vaccine

In recent days, information appeared in some online newspapers about a 5-year-old girl in Yen Thang commune, Yen Mo district (Ninh Binh) who died after being vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis 5 days ago, causing confusion among the public.

On March 27, Mr. Vu Manh Duong, Director of the Ninh Binh Province Department of Health, confirmed that the death of the 5-year-old girl was not due to the meningococcal meningitis vaccine.

Previously, some online newspapers quoted the girl's family and reported that in the early morning of March 24, 5 days after receiving the meningococcal meningitis vaccine, Pham Hong Ngoc (born in 2011) had a fever and showed signs of convulsions and panic.

Children are very susceptible to meningococcal meningitis. Photo: kienthuc.

Mr. Pham Van Binh's family (Ngoc's father) took the child to the hospital for emergency care, but the child died on the way to the hospital.

The family suspects that Ngoc's death was partly due to the vaccination at Yen Thang Commune Health Station, because before that, she was still healthy and had normal activities.

Mr. Vu Manh Duong, Director of the Ninh Binh Provincial Department of Health, said that the Department of Health has sent staff from the Provincial Center for Preventive Medicine to inspect the entire process of examining and vaccinating children at the Yen Thang Commune Health Station.

The inspection results showed that the entire process of examination and vaccination as well as post-vaccination monitoring at Yen Thang Commune Health Station was in accordance with the procedures and regulations of the health sector.

Mr. Vu Manh Duong said that the information published in some electronic newspapers was all told by the victim's family, the provincial health sector was not allowed to access, examine and treat the patient, so it was impossible to determine the cause of the patient's death, it is very possible that the patient died due to some pathological cause./.

According to Vietnamplus