Teen who had heart attack after vaccine dose to receive $225,000
SINGAPORE — The 16-year-old teenager who suffered a heart attack six days after receiving
his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine will be eligible for a one-time
financial assistance of $225,000.
This will be provided under Singapore's Vaccine Injury Financial Assistance Programme (VIFAP),
said the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday (16 August) in a press statement.
It added that medical investigations have found that the youth had developed acute
severe myocarditis which led to the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
"The myocarditis was likely a serious adverse event arising from the COVID-19 vaccine he received,
which might have been aggravated...
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