Deaths After Vaccination in Barisal
Police yet to get court order to submit probe report
Hizla police in Barisal are yet to receive the court order asking them to submit the probe reports on the deaths of three infants within hours after being injected with measles vaccine.
Mrittunjoy Mistri, senior judicial magistrate of Barisal, on Monday ordered the officer-in-charge of Hizla Police Station to submit the investigation reports following three separate cases filed by the fathers of the deceased.
The deceased, each aged about 10 months, are Toma, Tisha and Pranto of Kalikapur village under Hizla upazila.
Earlier on Monday, Profulla Dhali, father of Toma; Panchom Kolu, father of Tisha; and Anil Kolu, father of Pranto filed the cases with the magistrate's court.
After the hearing, the court took the charges into cognisance and asked the police to submit the investigation reports in the three cases on September 11, 12 and 13 respectively.
However, Rafikul Hossain, officer-in-charge of Hizla Police Station, told The Daily Star yesterday he is unaware of the cases filed and also the court order.
He said police will take necessary actions after getting the court order. Police earlier recorded cases of three unnatural deaths in this connection.
Taslima Parvin, health assistant of Kalikapur Community Health Clinic where the three babies were vaccinated under Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI), and health worker Md Syed Jawed Shahin of the clinic are accused in all the three cases.
Taslima Parvin was unavailable for comments, as her mobile phone was found switched off.
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