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Public hospital rabies vaccine shortage calls for early action

AN ACUTE shortage of anti-rabies vaccine in public hospitals, which include Infectious Diseases Hospital in Dhaka, has created a serious concern, laying bare health services failures. The hospital, which treats 400–500 cases of animal bites a day, ran out of stock on June 27. Hundreds of patients reaching the hospital from outlying areas are turned away. The hospital has also...

Most public hospitals run out of anti-rabies vaccine

The Infectious Diseases Hospital at Mohakhali in the capital Dhaka, the top public hospital in Bangladesh for the treatment of infectious diseases, has run out of the anti-rabies vaccine, causing sufferings to the patients, who rush to the health facility from districts with animal bites after not getting treatment at the local level...