Covid shots: Parents seek vaccine courts to ensure 'swift' justice

Parents of children who allegedly died from COVID-19 vaccine side effects are demanding justice and transparency in public health policies. They are calling for faster legal proceedings and a revamped system for reporting adverse events following immunization.

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New Delhi: Parents of young children, who allegedly died due to the adverse effects of Covid vaccine , have banded together to seek justice, demanding accountability and greater transparency in public health policies. The parents sought fast-track courts and vaccine courts to provide swift justice to those injured by vaccines and their families. According to them, the current system of computing adverse events following immunisation is "flawed.

" "We need a total revamp of this and need an active, transparent and accountable AEFI system ," said Venugopalan Govindan from Tamil Nadu, who lost his daughter after getting the shot. AEFI is an adverse event following immunisation (AEFI) defined as any untoward medical occurrence following immunisation which does not necessarily have a causal relationship to the vaccine. The adverse event may be any unfavourable or unintended sign, abnormal laboratory finding, symptom or disease.



"My niece was 23-years-old and hale and hearty. It was mandated by the government and as well as by the corporates to get vaccinated. On July 4 she took Covishield.

At night she complained of severe headache and mild fever. Next morning she was unresponsive. She was taken to the hospital where she was declared brought dead," said the aunt of Anjali Pandey who allegedly died due to the vaccine.

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The Supreme Court listed the matter for further hearing on November 26. Earlier, in an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court in response to the parents' petition, the government had said although it urged everyone to take the Covid-19 vaccine jab, it never forced anyone to get "vaccinated against their wishes." Nominations for ET MSME Awards are now open.

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