A teenage girl died just five days after having a cervical cancer jab.
Shazel Zaman, 13, was suffering with a severe headache, vomiting and dizziness after having the jab. Her symptoms became so severe that her family took her to Bury’s Fairfield Hospital.
But the family claim that a doctor dismissed her condition was linked to the HPV vaccine jab and astonishingly even branded her a ‘lazy child’ before she was sent home.
She was found collapsed unconscious with no pulse an hour later at her home in Bury, and died in hospital about four hours later.
Doctors had told her family they believed she might have a stomach bug and told them to bring her back to hospital if her condition worsened.
Now Pennine Acute NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, has launched an investigation into the standard of care Shazel received at the hospital.
Shazel’s family believe her death is linked directly to her having the vaccine.
She had been given her second course of the HPV vaccine at Derby High School in Bury on April 13, when she became ill. She died on April 17.
The family said that following her death she underwent a CT scan but it was unable to find a cause. They then paid £670 for an MRI scan at Oldham Royal Hospital. That too was inconclusive and an autopsy has now been carried out but the results will not be available for several months.
Shazel leaves another sister, Amaima, eight, and two brothers, Aman, 11, and Zain, seven.
Investigations have been launched into Shazel’s treatment at hospital and whether her death was linked to the HPV jab.
