DCPCR chairman Anurag Kundu has written to the Union Health Secretary urging him to incorporate pregnant girls and lactating mothers under the coronavirus vaccination process.
Delhi Commission For Protection Of Child Rights chairman Anurag Kundu has written to the Union Health Secretary urging him to incorporate pregnant girls and lactating mothers under the coronavirus vaccination process.
Currently, they’re excluded from the COVID-19 vaccination drive due to a scarcity of scientific trials knowledge on the impact of coronavirus vaccine on these two teams.
“Annually, 2.6 crore women give birth, and another 2.6 crore are lactating mothers. This makes 5.2 crore women who are left out, a critical population both in numbers and their vulnerability priority. World-over maternal death due to Covid-19 is emerging as a concern,” he stated in a tweet on Thursday.
In the letter, he has suggested that pregnant and lactating mothers be categorized as a high-risk group and organising of a process pressure to trace and monitor results and evolve SOPs.
He has additionally prompt that there ought to be proactive communication to teach everybody to make sure knowledgeable consent. A registry for pregnant girls and lactating mothers being vaccinated ought to be created so {that a} steady monitoring mechanism can exist to see if the vaccine has an hostile impact on pregnant girls and lactating mothers.
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