A doctor with a child patient suffering severe reaction of a faulty vaccine
Source: NTDTV
Yet the director of information services at the city’s health bureau blamed the vaccine related deaths and illnesses on individual differences in the patients.A few days ago Yang Yukui and Zhou Suying from Liaoning Province took their son to Beijing Children’s Hospital for a BCG vaccine – a common vaccine for children. Yet the vaccine poisoned their son. Lymph nodes in his neck and armpits swelled up and his chest became deformed. After several days, the hospital forced the family to take their child home. Mr. Yang was then beaten up by hospital security guards and later arrested by police.
“We were beaten by security guards, and after the beating, we were even accused of stirring up public disorder. They took my husband and detained him as a criminal. He is still there, and at the moment no one has been able to see him, not to mention myself going to see him, the lawyer I hired also couldn’t get a hold of anyone.”
Yang Yukui is yet to be released.
Children in Guangdong province have also suffered from faulty vaccines. Yu Tongan’s child had received a vaccine for viral Meningitis in 2005, and afterwards had a fever and vomited. According to the family, local authorities said these were normal symptoms, yet they say that now the child’s hands are dry and eyes are slanting and lifeless.
Local authorities saw the need to cover up the record of the child’s vaccination.
[Yu Tongan, Father of Vaccine Victim, Guangdong Province]:
“We filed a lawsuit and caught them for perjury, the temperature of vaccines should be maintained, but the only temperature records the center had were for the 29th and 30th of February, yet February 2005 only had 28 days. The record of my son’s vaccine had also been changed.”
Such incidents are common throughout China.
According to state-run China Daily, victims of faulty vaccines in Beijing may soon receive compensation payouts from authorities. Families of a relative who died from a faulty vaccine will receive approximately $90 thousand US dollars over 20 years.
