SUSPECTED FAKE VACCINE USED FOR 2016 ANTI-MEASLES
CAMPAIGN
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU..
Officials of The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health in
Abuja are now at a loss as to how to evade
Paedia Express Multimedia’s enquiries on the usage of fake vaccine on children in 2016 during the anti-measles campaign.
In a world exclusive investigations by The News Office Desk of Paedia
Express Multimedia in Lagos, Nigeria ,it was discovered exclusively through the Chief Medical Director of a private
hospital [names with held]in Lagos and a personal friend of this reporter of how several children started to develop
rashes and react indiscriminately after the vaccines were administered
on them early this year.
An impeccable source while discussing the issue of urgent
national action with this reporter lamented that the country only ever get to
react to an issue whenever a serious damage had being done especially to highly
placed Nigerian .
He noted that he was aware that at least nine children
developed serious ailments due to the fake vaccine aside from complaints from
various quarters around Lagos State.
According to him
,the epidemiological unit of the State
Ministry of Health was fully aware of
the incident but the source will not know to what extent they have gone on its investigations
and its findings as at press time.
The source
explained that the B.C.G. vaccine used for children to fight tuberculosis was
actually a bacteria strain of the same causative agent which was isolated
synthetically and then re-introduced into the body so that it can prevent any
future attack of tuberculosis after providing the body with ant-bodies.
The medical
doctor insisted that until a thorough medical enquiry backed up with an
evidence ,it will be difficult for him at this stage to make a statement on the
controversial vaccine
He paid tributes
to the health of seasoned psychiatric patients whose body immune and defense
systems are so strong that they almost do not fall sick unlike the normal
healthy human being, saying this was simply because the former have the right
quantity and quality of anti-bodies to fight any form of foreign invader.
When this reporter enquired from a health official at
the Ifako-Ijaiye Health Centre in Ajilete Area of Ifako –Ijaiye in Lagos State,
he was informed that though there were bureaucratic documentations to be filed if
there were complaints made by patients but fortunately there was no form of
complains recorded .
On the 16th
of March,2016,the consumers Protection Council drew the attention of the entire
world to factors stimulating antibiotics resistance.
The agency’s
Director General ,Mrs Dupe Atoki while addressing a cross section of the press explained
to the gathering that due to anti-biotic resistance that was very much in vogue
in Nigeria there was medical intervention procedures such as organ transplants,
surgeries and other forms of treatment that requires a follow up with
antibiotics to ensure a patient full recovery.
On the 18 of
March,2016,at the Ifako –Ijaiye Local Government Area organized road show to
boost the National Immunization programme on polio project ,The Primary Health
Coordinator in the area ,Dr Oladapo Asiyanbi while answering questions from a cross
section of the press told Paedia Express Multimedia at Pen Cinema area of
Agege,Lagos said that there was no cause
for alarm.
According to him
,there was a code of chain process of distributing vaccines right from Abuja to
the least local government area nationwide and if at all there was any crisis
situation this could easily be detected with the situation arrested.
On the 23rd
of March,2016,at The Omonua Blood Bank
Limited medical diagnostic centre in
Ikeja,Lagos,Nigeria this
reporter was told by two different sources that due to poor cases of quality
control the vaccine in question may have expired without the administering
officials being aware of it.
They also cited the
case of poor storage of the vaccines which may have affected its shelf
life thus exposing its consumers to
danger.
When this reporter
paid the office of the Director of Epidemiology ,Lagos state Ministry Of Health
a visit ,an official who spoke to him
neither denied nor confirmed the tale
but in a terse reply simply asked this reporter to do a letter to the state
Commissioner for Health ,Dr Jide Idris stating his worries.
When this reporter
saw his medical doctor pal on the 28 of May,2016,the medical professional
scoffed at the former’s revelation on the matter.
His words:”you
mean you actually went to their office to query them and you are actually expecting
them to confess to you that they administered fake measles vaccines on children”
“you are a very
funny and interesting young man,do you not know that if you do not confront
them with physical evidence on a field report
that they will deny”
“They will have
to deny so as to save their faces from
shame but I know that I saw something”he added
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