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Sudden spurt in dog-bite cases
MOTI Lal Nehru District (Colvin) Hospital administration is alarmed over sudden increase in dog-bite cases in the past few days. The hospital is receiving 35 to 50 dog-bite patients daily from as far away as Kaushambi and Pratapgarh.
MOTI Lal Nehru District (Colvin) Hospital administration is alarmed over sudden increase in dog-bite cases in the past few days.
The hospital is receiving 35 to 50 dog-bite patients daily from as far away as Kaushambi and Pratapgarh.
The management has also claimed that due to high inflow of patients the anti-rabies vaccine stock may finish in another two days.
Being a major centre of anti-rabies cases in the district, the hospital normally used to receive 25 to 30 dog-bite patients daily.
Apart from Allahabad the patients from Fatehpur and parts of Kaushambi also come to the hospital to get anti-rabies vaccine. But in the past few days the, hospital is witnessing unexpected increase in dog-bite patients.
The hospital is facing difficulty in managing these patients and many of them are also being referred to other hospitals.
The 500 vials of anti-rabies vaccine received by the hospital last month have almost exhausted, due to the large number of patients.
"We are surprised to receive as many as 50 fresh cases of dog-bite on some days.
This is at least 15 per cent more than the normal dog-bite patients received by the hospital.
The number of dog-bite cases has increased in the past few days which needs immediate attention," said Dr SJ Singh, chief medical superintendent of Colvin Hospital.
Dr Singh said the patients from remote areas of Kaushambi and Pratapgarh were also coming to the hospital.
"Since every patient is given five doses of anti-rabies vaccine, including the booster dose on the 90th day, the hospital has almost run out of the vaccine stock. Although we have written to the government for making the supply, we may not be able to provide the vaccine after one or two days," he added.
Dr Singh said another problem was that the hospital receives annual budget of only Rs 70,000 for the anti-rabies vaccine. Only 700 patients could be managed in this budget.
Moreover the companies supplying vaccine have increased the price from Rs 206 to Rs 266 per vial and the government was yet to make the negotiations, he added.
