Moradabad/Lucknow: A 46-year-old health worker died a day after receiving the coronavirus vaccination. However, the autopsy report attributed his death to ‘cardio-pulmonary disease’, officials said Monday. The health worker has been identified as Mahipal Singh. His family said he was not suffering from any ailment other than fever and cough. They blamed the death on vaccination. A high-level inquiry was being ordered, Moradabad District Magistrate Rakesh Singh said.
Mahipal was working as ward boy in the surgical ward of the state-run Deendayal Upadhya hospital in Moradabad. He died Sunday night.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Milind Chandra Garg, however, said that the cause of death was a cardiac problem. “Deceased Mahipal’s heart was found enlarged. It had blood clots according to post-mortem report,” Dr Garg said. “It appears that Mahipal was suffering from a cardiac disease,” he added.
The report of the post-mortem, conducted by three doctors, said the death was caused by ‘cardio-pulmonary disease’. It added there is ‘no relation with corona vaccine’.
The CMO trashed suggestions of any type of side effect of the vaccination. However, he admitted that some employees were suffering from fever after taking the shots.
His comments came against the backdrop of Mahipal’s son Vishal stating that his father called him to hospital as he was feeling difficulty in breathing.
“My father was suffering from cough but after vaccination he had fever and felt heaviness in breathing. Sunday he was admitted in the government hospital where he expired at night,” Vishal informed. But, Mahipal’s family members claimed that he was never had any cardiac problem. He was quite healthy except for the fever and cough. “My father was not suffering from corona even when he performed his duty properly during the pandemic,” his son informed.
The CMO maintained that some of those who were vaccinated ‘were facing general problems but not like Mahipal’.
The Moradabad district magistrate said that the vaccination is fully safe and no side effects were reported. “The case of Mahipal is exceptional and a high-level medical inquiry will be ordered,” he said.