The Incidence of Adverse Reactions Due to Newer Vaccines in Rural Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital: A Pharmacovigilance Study

Dr. Sarju R. Zilate; Dr. Ranjeet Kumar; Dr. Devesh D. Gosavi; Dr.Yugantar N. Wakde

Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

The Incidence of Adverse Reactions Due to Newer Vaccines in Rural Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital: A Pharmacovigilance Study

Dr. Sarju R. Zilate, Dr. Ranjeet Kumar, Dr. Devesh D. Gosavi, Dr. Yugantar N. Wakde

Abstract :

Immunization constitutes one of the most operative and modern public health measures for preventing serious diseases. Drugs are given for therapeutic purposes to diseased patients but vaccines are the modern tools for prevention of healthy individuals from diseases. Therefore, it is highly expected that, vaccines are much safer as compared to drugs. Newer vaccine as per some studies claimed to be responsible for though rare but serious adverse reaction and Clinical trials are not enough to suggest less risk of adverse reaction so post- licensure studies are advised in India and other countries. A total of 1116 children participated in the study. Out of these 567 (50.8%) were girls and 549 (49.1%) were boys. Overall total of 2598 doses of vaccines were administered to participants. These vaccines are MMR, Rotavirus, Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV), Pneumococcal and Hib vaccines. A total of 221 non-serious suspected adverse reactions are found in our study.