PANJIM: The Awaken India Movement (AIM) has raised its concerns over Covishield vaccine side effects and demands compensation and liability to victims and families.
In light of recent developments where AstraZeneca accepted Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS) as a side effect in UK Courts, the AIM stated that it has been collecting details of Covid vaccine deaths covered by media/social media in India and sharing with various high authorities of the country, since 2021, when the vaccination began.
The government had failed to respond to its repeated requests to investigate deaths and debilitation from adverse effects of vaccination. As per the AIM efforts, the current tally stands at 19,273 deaths in the adult population and 186 deaths in children. This figure could actually be much more, the AIM said.
The government had completely ignored the rising number of cases of tragic deaths post Covid vaccination all the while and continues to promote Covid vaccines as “safe and effective”, without scientific investigation and invoking epidemiology.
The AIM has urged the Government of India to compensate all the victims of the Covishield vaccine including the family members, through a mechanism that involves vaccine manufacturers as well and to establish Fast Track Courts and Vaccine Courts to provide swift justice to the vaccine injured and their families.
The AIM has also demanded the implementation of active surveillance and monitoring mechanisms to ensure vaccine adverse events are identified as early as possible and to create early treatment protocols and to widely publicise them so that lives can be saved.
It has further urged the government to review the science behind all Covid vaccines and audit their commercialisation.
