Five children suffered serious injuries on their faces and heads when a stray dog attacked them in the Manghopir area, it emerged on Saturday.Their parents had to leave a government hospital in Orangi Town because of non-availability of the life-saving treatment there.They said that five children, aged between four and six, were brought from to the Sindh Government Qatar Hospital with category three wounds, requiring immediate shots of rabies immunoglobulin (RIG) — a life-saving serum essential for all serious animal exposures.“Such injuries require treatment with RIG that we don’t have.
This costly medicine [from the government] is only provided to tertiary care facilities while Qatar Hospital serves as a secondary care facility,” a doctor at the hospital told media.
