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The Hindu Bureau

Parents, relatives ransack UPHC in Arakkonam for death of infant

Parents and relatives of an infant ransacked the Urban Primary Health Care Centre (UPHC) in Arakkonam town in Ranipet on Saturday blaming the vaccination of the baby by the duty doctors and other staff in the centre as the cause of the death.

Police said that D. Vishwa (50-day-old) was brought by his parents K. Dinesh (26) and D. Shanta (22), residents of Dalit colony near the town, to the centre on December 27 for routine vaccination. The paediatrician at the centre administered vaccines to nine children including Vishwa on the day.

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