QAZI SHOAIB KHAN
ATTOCK (NOV-17) /DNA/ – The non-availability of anti-venom vaccine at the tehsil headquarters hospital Pindigheb Attock has caused the death of a snake bite victim on Sunday, sources said.
Hailing from Dandi village, the man identified as Shoukat was bitten by a snake while working in the fields. His family brought him to the tehsil headquarters hospital Pindigheb in serious condition but due to the non-availability of anti-snake bite vaccine at the hospital, he was referred to the Rawalpindi but due to paucity of financial resources, he delayed moved to hospital in Rawalpindi where doctors tried their best to save his life but he could not survive.
Later the body was handed over to the bereaved family for the burial. The local social and public circles complained that despite the constituency of the Governor Punjab Sardar Saleem Haider anti-rabies and other vaccines were not available in century old health facility.
They laminated that cases of snake, and dog bites were on the rise in the tehsil and people bitten by reptiles were referred to hospitals in the rest of the tehsil Pindigheb and Jand because of the shortage of vaccines in the local health facility.
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