A health worker died in Telangana – the third such case – just days after getting the Covid-19 vaccine, although health officials maintained that the fatality was not due to the vaccination.
The 55-year-old woman from Mancherial district received the vaccine dose at the primary health center in Kasipet on January 19, but complained of shortness of breath and dizziness only on January 29, officials said on Sunday.
According to the Director of Public Health, Dr. G Srinivas Rao, she was admitted to the Medilife Hospital in Mancherial. She was transferred to the Nizam Institute of Medical Sciences (NIM), in Hyderabad, on January 30, where she succumbed at around 11 pm.
“The cause of death is clearly indicative of underlying morbidities and not due to Covid vaccination. Death occurred due to cardiorespiratory arrest triggered by multiple morbidities, such as kyphoscoliosis with restricted pulmonary disease, respiratory infection with type 2 respiratory failure, accelerated hypertension with left ventricular failure, “said Rao.
Since the vaccination started on January 16, health officials said, the three deaths were unrelated to the vaccine.
Interestingly, all three had received the vaccine on the same day, but in different places in the state.
In the first incident, a 42-year-old male health worker who shot on January 19 died the next day. He received the vaccine at the Kuntala Primary Health Center in Nirmal district.
He developed chest pains and was brought dead to Nirmal District Hospital in the early hours of January 20.
In the second case, a 45-year-old health worker vaccinated on January 19 at a primary health center in the urban district of Warangal died on January 24.
Telangana has already vaccinated 1,688,589 health professionals. According to health officials, 57 percent of target beneficiaries received the vaccine.
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