State records another post-vaccination fatality
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, June 09 2021:
After a lactating mother from Thoubal district died few hours of getting vaccinated, the state recorded another post COVID-19 vaccination fatality when a 72 years old woman from Imphal West district breathed her last at JNIMS.
The second woman suffered BP stroke on Monday morning and rushed to JNIMS where she succumbed at about 1.45 pm the same day.
The deceased woman has been identified as Laishram Bino Devi, wife of L Tombi of Kwakeithel Konjeng Leikai.
According to a family member, Bino contracted COVID-19 during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic and she got vaccinated during Mass Community Vaccination programme conducted at PHC Kwakeithel Konjeng Leikai on May 28 .
Before getting her vaccine dose, one of the family members who accompanied Bino to the vaccination venue told the doctors that Bino had heart problem and was also under medication to control high BP.
On the next day of vaccination, Bino suffered fever and pain all over her body and had been taking Paracetamol provided by doctors at the vaccination venue.
However, Bino was found lying unconscious on her bed on Monday morning and immediately rushed to JNIMS hospital in a private ambulance.
At JNIMS, Bino tested positive for COVID-19 through TrueNat and she was referred to Covid Care Centre for treatment.
Unable to get bed, Bino was given treatment on the floor of the Covid Care Centre.
Though doctors advised her to put up in the ICU, there was no such facility at the centre and hence given treatment on the floor itself.
Repeated requests for getting ICU bed too remained futile as there was no vacant ICU bed, the family member recounted, adding that Bino remained lying on the floor even as doctors offered to refer her to other hospital for treatment.
Finally, she was brought inside the Oscitation room and tried to improve her pulse but faced problem due to lack of equipment, the family member recounted.
Bino stayed cautiously and never went out from home as she contracted the virus last year but ventured out only on May 28 for vaccination.
It is quite surprising as to how she contracted the virus, another family member said, adding that people go to hospital to save their lives but it turns out to be quite contradictory for poor people like Bino.
Without blaming anybody, Bino's family member contended that doctors and officials of the hospital do everything at their disposal when patient hailing from a wealthier section of the society seek treatment.
The family member also expressed regret that poor patients have to wait for the mercy of the Almighty even at hospitals.