AT least 57 children, all under five years of age, were taken to a hospital in eastern India after they were mistakenly given hepatitis vaccines instead of polio immunisation drops, officials say.
Authorities have ordered a probe and suspended four health workers after the incident on Sunday in Arambagh in West Bengal state.
Hepatitis B vaccine, which is normally injected, was administered orally to children at state-run clinics, causing children to start vomiting and sweat profusely.
"Fifty-seven children who were administered the wrong vaccine were admitted to a local hospital," Biswaranjan Satpathy, director of state health services said.
"They were later discharged but we are getting reports of panic-stricken parents still getting children to the hospital for checkups," he said from the state capital Kolkata.
"There is definite medical negligence as those in charge did not even check what they were administering to children," he said.
Broadcaster NDTV said a total of 114 children had been given the wrong vaccines in the region, some 80 kilometres north of Kolkata.
The hepatitis B vaccine should not cause any long-term harm to the health of the children, Apurva Ghose, director of the Kolkata-based Child Health Institute told the network.
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