Form Guidelines To Compensate Kin Of Those Died Due To Reactions To COVID Vaccine: Kerala HC
The Kerala High Court has called for urgent action from the Central Government and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to compensate the families of those who died of adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine.
A bench of Justice VG Arun on Wednesday said that guidelines should be formulated for the disbursement of compensation to the families of people who died due to reactions to the COVID vaccine.
Formulate a proper guideline??
"Similar issues are cropping up in other states also. There has to be an effort to formulate a proper guideline, a proper scheme for compensating these persons and that is being done. Let them bring on record what steps have been taken so that I can pass a reasoned and considered order," the court said.
The court was hearing the plea by a woman who lost her husband, following the administering of the COVID-19 vaccine in August 2021.
The petitioner sought that the Court should issue directions to NDMA for issuing guidelines within a fixed timeframe.
Petition seeking Rs 1,000 crore for vaccine death
In February a similar petition was filed in the Bombay High Court by the father of a medical student seeking Rs 1,000 crore compensation alleging that his daughter died due to side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine.?
The petitioner, Dilip Lunawat had alleged that his daughter Snehal Lunawat, a doctor, who was given Covishield in January 2021 and died March 1 due to cerebral venous thrombosis, bleeding in the brain and thrombocytopenia.
Lunawat's plea said health workers like his daughter were compelled to take the vaccine due to the "false narratives created by Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), Director of All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), the Maharashtra government, and the Union government that vaccines are safe."
The first confirmed case of death due to anaphylaxis following COVID-19 vaccination was confirmed in June 2021, when the National AEFI (Adverse Events Following Immunisation) committee said the death of a 68-year-old man had been attributed to a severe allergic reaction following vaccination on March 8.
AEFI committee had also confirmed that Lunawat died due to vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia.
167 confirmed deaths in India
In February this year, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar had informed the Lok Sabha that 167 deaths have been reported as Adverse Events Following Immunization after the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the country.
The highest number of 43 fatalities has been reported as AEFI from Kerala, followed by 15 from Maharashtra, 14 from West Bengal and 12 each from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha.
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