President IAP: Informed Consent Must for Vaccinating.

[Guest guest]

To

Sri Panna Choudhury President Indian Academy of Pediatricians Mumbai Dt: 14.08.09

Dear Sir,

Sub: Consent of Parents before Vaccinating Infants. Namaskar.

Please note I have been directed to write this letter to you by very

eminent physicians of India who wish to remain anonymous at present.

This

has reference to the telephonic conversation I had with you yesterday.

I wish to report that a colleague of mine had his wife admitted to a

local hospital for delivery. A baby boy was born to him on the 9th of August. On the 12th of August the baby was prescribed the Hepatitis-B vaccination.

My

colleague is well aware of the controversial nature of this vaccine and

it’s after effects and also that it is not included within the UIP. He

thus made a decision not to allow this vaccination to the administered

to the infant.

However

all the eight pediatricians of the hospital rushed to him and warned of

grave dangers if the child was not vaccinated. My friend was surprised

and protested vehemently to the extent of tearing apart the

prescription but the doctors persisted and ultimately vaccinated the

child. When my friend took my name the doctors reportedly said, “Bring

him here and we will thrash him.â€

The

entire episode reflects very poorly upon the attitude of pediatricians.

When I spoke about this to other non pediatric doctors they were taken

aback and requested me to take up the matter with you which I did. I

also talked to Dr Ajay Gambhir. Later Dr Aurobindo Mohanty called me up

and assured the doctors meant no harm and that I should let the matter

rest. However this incident has shaken us to the core and

shocked responsible members of the society to whom I have narrated the

incident.

I

visited the hospital and learnt from the other patients that doctors

vaccinating in spite of parent’s protest is routine. From reliable

sources I learnt that this happens in all hospitals.

As

I have requested you yesterday, and have conveyed to three past

President’s of IAP, I sincerely wish that you evolve guidelines for

doctors to respect the wishes of the parents. It is not mandatory that children should be vaccinated.

Modern medicine is only a part of India ’s health care which continues

to be dominated by other holistic systems. Except for modern medicine

no other system advocates unnecessary medication of children let alone

injecting them with potent toxins without any scientific justification.

I would request you once again to;

Devise

a format of informed consent that parents should sign before vaccines

beyond the UIP can be administered to infants. This document should

contain all side effects as per scientific studies conducted and

published in peer reviewed journals.Doctors

sign a Physicians Warranty of Vaccine Safety and take personal

responsibility for side effects from the vaccines beyond the UIPThe

doctors personally compensate children and bear their entire cost of

treatment if they are vaccine damaged. After all the optional vaccines

not sanctioned by the Govt of India. The doctors give them to augment

their income.

If

you so require, I and other rights activists can help you with the

formalities of preparing the formats. I am sure concerned citizen of

our society would approve of these small steps. We cannot allow any

doctor to inject studied poisons and heavy metals into infants and that

too forcibly, however laudable be their attempts to “protect the

societyâ€..

Kindly let me know your decision on the matter.

Yours faithfully,

Jagannath Chatterjee

Cc: Ms Anu Garg – Commissioner Cum Health Secy, Orissa

Sri G V Sarma, Commisioner Cum Secy, Women & Child Dev, Orissa

Sri Tarun Kanti Mishra – Secretary, Planning Commission

Dr Pushpa Bhargava – Supreme Court Appointee to GEAC

Dr V M Katoch, Director, ICMR

Dr S K Kara – Director, RMRC

Director, National Rural Health Mission Director, State Institute for Family Welfare

Dr GPI Singh, Doctors For Food & Biosafety

Dr Vandana Prasad – Public Health Resource Network

Prof Dr Leo Rebello – Director, Natural Health Centre

Ms Aruna Rodrigues – Sunray Harvestors

Sri Satheesh Periyapatna – Director, DDS

Sri Bharatendu Prakash – Director VSK

Sri Satinath Sarangi – Bhopal Group for Information & Action

Sri Bharat Mansata – Earthcare Books

Dr Ajay Gambhir – Vice President, IAP

State President, IAP

Dr Aurobindo Mohanty – State President, BPNI

Ms Namrata Chadha – President, State Legal Cell

Ms Sashi Prabha Bindhani – Human Rights Law Network

Sri Sudhir Pattnaik – Samadrushti

Sri Biswajit Mohanty – State President, WLS

Sri Gauranga Mohanty – Jana Swasthya Abhiyan

Dr Gopal Dabade – Drug Action India – For kind follow up please.

Sri Mangaraj Panda – Director, UAA

Sri Rajkishore Mishra – State Consultant, RTFAll it takes is just one vaccine to forever change your life. - Dawn, mother of vaccine damaged child.

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